I've been an actor since I was a kid.

I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

I love directing; it felt right to me when I did 'Flying Lessons'. It's something I will do again. Really, you can always be working and developing. That's something that's kind of ever constant.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

It simply isn’t a woman’s nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.

I would like to thank my coach for believing in me.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.

I intend to make Scientology as accessible to as many people as I can.

Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.

In mine, they were just trying to steal a briefcase of cocaine.* That's it. Some flour that I got out of my mom's cupboard.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.