I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.

I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

I've lost things bigger than my music career.

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.

Love is a process in which ego is lost and infinity is experienced.

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium.