Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.

My goal is to always be improving my skills.

Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

I'm a calm-headed fighter. I do my job.

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

I needed to let go of the idea of a God who was mad at me for feeling how I was feeling. Now, I bask in an understanding of the divine that delights in truth and the complexities of the human experience - even when it's not very 'clean.'

Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.

I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'