I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

It is not really hard to understand when women say that they like 'tall, dark and handsome' men..They simply mean a tall man with dark fantasies and handsome salary..

I always gravitate towards things that are not beautiful, but broken and weird and fascinating

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic.

Leadership is the ability to take people to places they would be afraid to go alone.

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.