I used to be a person that wasn't able to laugh at myself easily.

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful than being a victim.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

If you can't love yourself, how can you love others?

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent.

I am sorry," Will said. "No," Jem said... "Don't be ordinary like that. Don't say you're sorry.

It all meant something. Until it didn't.

Practice makes polish and polish makes money.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

When everyone has let you down... You still have ice cream.

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.