You can make yourself happy.

It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.

I'm not macho. I'm very open about things. I don't try to hide my feelings.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

You can become something you don't want to become, but it's a change, a new phase. Hopefully one you want.

You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.

There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

There are people that will try to hurt you and hold you down.

Boldness comes from curiosity.

There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.

Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him?

Do you understand what I'm saying?Pardon? I just wanna hear you talking.

Each write the story of your life, so try writing the best you can.

All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.

Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state.