Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.

I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.

Angels worship God with purity and love; men, with fear and trembling.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa

Making films is like making stuff together as kids.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.