I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

A genuinely caring heart always find kindness and happiness to share.

One faerie - and then we were free. Just on more swing of my arm. And maybe one more after that - maybe one more swing, up and inward and into my own heart.

And as she fell apart, her shattered pieces began to bloom — blossoming until she became herself exactly as she was meant to be...

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy.

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

I like to get a vibe first, then a melody and really beat up the melody for a while, then try and find a lyric that really suits him/her.

I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that, in such a tiny place. There's something disturbing about it.

You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.