Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.

Yes, I’m proud to be indigenous. I’m half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.

I hope to contribute to a global warming of hearts and a climate change in human consciousness.

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living.

It's all rather political, mourning is.

Are you there? If your mind is not there, you are not there! You are wherever your mind is wandering!

Trauma ruptures and hollows. Compassion mends and fills

Actually Gabriel’s an archangel, ” I corrected. “But otherwise, yes.”“Well, that explains why he’s so hard to impress, ” said Xavier flippantly

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.