I grew up with Thundercats and She-Ra: Princess Of Power. That was sort of my take on fantasy: the women after-school cartoon world.

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

… Shannon’s fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool.

Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.

People always have secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.

The past is obdurate.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

More people write poetry than read it.

The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.

Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?

There are always advancements that are happening with mining technology and the ability to detect gases or methane within the mine. Those things are moving forward every day.

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.