What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

Let's make beautiful music together, Emery Carmichael.

I like to test myself and see where I am and how I am against other people in this sport. I think that's the real draw for me.

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.

Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

To him who has determined, it only remains to act.

I think I can try the film world out for a while.

He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.

We do learn something about ourselves when we are up against the wall, and we do most certainly come out stronger.