I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

So many things tear us apart from each other. That's the hardest thing, to fit with all the hatred and pain we're embroiled in. I mean, we're a very violent species, physically and emotionally.

As I've become older and more self-conscious, I'm more aware of films and the film industry. I'm sure you've seen that, but the publicity, the public side of this world is pretty scary to me.

The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.

I wasn't a child star, so hopefully I can keep my head on straight.

I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.

I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.

Sometimes the opposite of loss is loss.

Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it.

Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

The hurt affects your ability to go forward.

Touching clothes is just shopping foreplay, but it's changing. After all, you don't need to try a Mercedes to know that you'd like one.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.

Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.