I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public.

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

I don't think people have seen yet what I can really do. Only appetizers!

I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.

Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

You need to remember, he told her, that you don't have another life in the bank. You got to make the most of the one you're living right now. - Old Man Crow

But all memories, no matter how distant, no matter how distorted, have the shadow of truth underneath. Even the most imperfect memory is a window—

Be calm, be brave, it'll be okay.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

I'm going to cut taxes big league, and you're going to raise taxes big league, end of story.

I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.