My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.

The more confidence you have in yourself and the more you believe that you are destined to do what you are gonna do, it will happen.

When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.

My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like I wont be satisfied unless I know how to use it.

I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.

I'm stubborn. I'm hardheaded. I don't do what I don't want to do.

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall, then we think like ancestors who thought there's abyss at the edge of flat earth.

I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.

In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.

The Devil is kind to his own.

You go in thinking you have to do this all by yourself, and what I learned was no, when you hire great people, they do so much for you.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.