It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

All the luxuries you name I have, still the peace I do not get.One day, my friend called me off, and I get the world to which I belong.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

Every girl needs a shoe that goes with nothing and therefore goes with everything.

I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].

If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn’t buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.