I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

I felt much better when I started to become myself a bit more and to spend time with people who I genuinely liked as opposed to the people I felt I should be spending time with.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games.

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.

Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.

With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.

It doesn't really matter what people think of me, I should just be connecting with people I really like instead of pretending to be the perfect version of myself.

I’m torn. I want an ‘R’ (rating) because we can get a lot of cool scenes into it, but then I like the idea of younger girls being able to see it.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

No matter the joy in heaven, its coldness will make you bask beside the flames of hell.

The joy of success outweighs whatever negativity you might get from failing a couple of times.

A little holiday spirit lives forever in everyone. Test your own holiday spirit. Give away all of it you can. You'll see, it comes right back to you.

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

You can't worry about things you have no control over.