"I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans."

"Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average."

"People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'"

"My first car was a motorcycle."

"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."

"Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to."

"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again."

"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."