I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever s….

I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed a….

I was lucky enough to realize my dream. When I was a little kid in Santa Barbara, sitting on the floor in my grandmother's house, dreaming of maybe o….

I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community, and I had access to everything. I t….

I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bi….

It is more than possible; it is probable..

However bad your life appears, things could be far, far worse.

I must have true love or nothing..

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me..

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree o….

Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like..

I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever..

Little Christian Bale. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and I re-watched it not too long ago, and my jaw just hit the floor. The whole time….

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love..

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words..

I'm just going to be me..

Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going t….

Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies..

Our wills are ours, to make them Thine..

Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be..

I was kind of reared by television, but the BBC, it still had that thing - and people are always invoking that kind of Reithian idea - where you coul….