I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.

I wish I was more adventurous.

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

Few ever found enlightenment in haste, and nobody will ever discover it in gibberish

Happiness depends on our thoughts and actions, not on wealth, splendor, or external conditions.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.

Climate change is real. In order to alter this reality, we need all hands on deck.

The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.

To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

When I take a break for a week, it takes me three weeks to get back to where I was.