I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

So many things tear us apart from each other. That's the hardest thing, to fit with all the hatred and pain we're embroiled in. I mean, we're a very violent species, physically and emotionally.

As I've become older and more self-conscious, I'm more aware of films and the film industry. I'm sure you've seen that, but the publicity, the public side of this world is pretty scary to me.

The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

I wasn't a child star, so hopefully I can keep my head on straight.

I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.

I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.

Human strength plus intelligence cannot unlock the door that God is hiding its key.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

Failure to a positively programmed mind is nothing but an opportunity to carefully try again with a more strategic approach.

Pride is a good horse if thou ridest wisely

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

I didn't have to be friends with people who were into pop music.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.