I've never, ever, in my entire life, been upset at a casting choice.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

Simplicity is, as simple as you make it.

If one door closes, another opens. As far as you're growing and updating yourself, the world craves to have a piece of you.

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

I smoke a blunt once every blue moon. But hey, the moon looks kinda blue tonight.

The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.