I have to make a living, and I have been in a few films I wish I hadn't been in, but I don't know where things will lead me next, and that's exciting.

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire

I still eat sushi, though I'm trying my best to have my last sushi roll.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything.

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

You have to trust the journey. That has become my motto for years: trust the journey. Because in the end, we're all kind of fearful. We all have fears and insecurities and ups and downs.

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

I've always thought that if I bury my feelings now, I can dig them up later when I have time to deal with them.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.

The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.

Doubtless there are other roads.