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

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.

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.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

Failure is always an option

Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Do not tell me your values​​. Just give me pocket money, I would say how much you are worth

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

Love is something, if you give it away, you end up having more.

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.