I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!