It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

We don't live. We're miming in the choir.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are.

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

What makes me feel rich is spending time with my children, knowing we are making beautiful memories together.

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

I may not have any skeletons in my closet, but I do have a little box of souls in my sock drawer. —T-SHIRT

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies that are going to come their way.

It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.

The only thing I really love is Fiji water. That's like the only crazy request - I don't like any other water.

Entrepreneurs have two basic assets: their creativity and their relationships.

There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.