I allow myself to get firmly sucked in. I love that! I come from that.

I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now.

A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.

I grew up loving Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and Michael Bay and Adrian Lyne.

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.

[Dmitry Bilozerchev] is a genius of gymnastics.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.

I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door.

I love thee; none but thee, and thou deservest it

All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.