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.

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.

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.

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

Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.

We must turn from worthless things towards faith in God.

The Bible takes the word home with all of its tender associations and sacred memories, and applies it to the hereafter and tells us that heaven is home.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions I was (am?) not unique but special. This is why I was an artist

Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

Make a habit to remember God in your perfectly beautiful days, because in bad days even atheists do remember Him!

The breath that sharpens life is life itself.

Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.