I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

Even though human spirit always enjoys the peace, the human ego drives joy from war.

Honestly...how did I do as a big sister?

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.

Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.

God is God, and I'm not.

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.