For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

Don't be ashamed of who you are, embrace who you are.

I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

Yeah. I left something here that I love.

This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.

If it gets laughs, it's funny.

The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

If this were a simpler matter, I'd have eliminated everyone else by now.

Don't get locked up into the ultimate goal. Just concentrate on the next step.

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.

Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.