I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

I love him, and he loves me. And being together makes even the little things better.

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.

But we've got to work. We can't just live on reputations at all - by any means.

I give money to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what, when I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them and they are there for me.

Do not suppose, first of all, that Mao Tse-tung could be the "saviour" of China. Nonsense. There will never be one "saviour" of China. Yet undeniably you feel a certain force of destiny in him.

Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

You can see the true heart of a man when you're out in the woods with a weapon

People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy.

Social service that savours of patronage is not service.

You don't want to look too far ahead or get too excited about anything, so I just want to keep doing what I've been doing.