I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

Gehirn had to protect her love - and she only knew one way to do so. She lit the sky afire.

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time.

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

Everyone likes a bit of competition.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the critical issue.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.