Every project has its own challenges and rewards. If it's not challenging, why do it?

Period movies are just always a wonderful thing to work on.

It was the most amazing opportunity to work on a period movie and transform Anthony Hopkins into Hitchcock.

There's always challenges to everything.

You dream that you want to be a monster maker when you grow up, and that's what happened. I refused to take no for an answer. I just was a very driven kid, who's now a very driven semi-adult.

I just wanted to do hair in the movies and in Hollywood, and made it work.

Don't pound your chest when it's all good, then blame God when it's all bad.

Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

I am forever learning and changing.

I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today.

We speak loud. And we speak with our hands, but we're not aggressive like warwise. A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle.

Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.