Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

Nature is a series of murders.

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

It seems like there'd be no Donald Trump without the internet, first of all. He's a tweeter, which is basically just a bullhorn.

I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted.

I love British female directors lately.

I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.

I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace.

Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.

God put the moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest.

To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.

Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.