My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

I felt much better when I started to become myself a bit more and to spend time with people who I genuinely liked as opposed to the people I felt I should be spending time with.

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games.

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.

With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.

It doesn't really matter what people think of me, I should just be connecting with people I really like instead of pretending to be the perfect version of myself.

I’m torn. I want an ‘R’ (rating) because we can get a lot of cool scenes into it, but then I like the idea of younger girls being able to see it.

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

Sin has progressed and gained momentum

As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.'

Always stay strong to your dream because when you lose sight of it then that is when your dream dies!

...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.

But I don't want your throne." "Then what do you want?" "You.

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.