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

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

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

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

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 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.

In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.

Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation".

Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant.

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.

Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

I still live today with my mom sending me, you know, Hebrew Scriptures or phrases or celebrating.