When I'm making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How are people going to enjoy playing the games we are making today? And as long as I can enjoy something other people can enjoy it, too.

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

You can throw away your script more easily than you can throw away your film.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.

It's highly dishonorable to ever quit a production. I never have done it, and I can't imagine ever doing it. However, I have been in productions before where, on the first in the read-through, you feel that someone is in trouble, and indeed, actors have been let go shortly after read-throughs. I've seen that happen before.

I like definitive things.

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.

All the things I've done are about duty and guilt: trying to do your best to better other people's lives.

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.