I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14

You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

I had to stand in front of my refrigerator, which was open, dipping pretzels in cream cheese and stuffing them in my mouth. If I did that, I was good. Otherwise I was nauseous.

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences - good or bad - and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal

We're blessed to be worrying about the silly things that we worry about when people are worrying about where they are going to sleep, and what they are going to feed their kids every day.

[God] knows that an uncontrolled life is an unhappy life, so He puts reins on our wayward souls that they may be directed into the “paths of righteousness.

Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone.

I don't want to be pitted as a person who is anti-Latino or anti-Hispanic because I believe in the laws.

Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.

For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder Woman and her counterparts are definitely anti-masculine.

A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.

Quaintness is creepy. So let's maximize that.

The mother of creation is vanity.

I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.

Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.