I was raised to be some kind of artist.

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

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 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 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.

Adopt your own view and adapt with others' views

If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body.

Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

I never went to church when I was in college, either.

My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown

When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.