One of the greatest things parents can do for their children is to believe in them(their uniqueness) and help them realize their own God-given dreams

Understanding is the first step of accepting!

With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample.

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days.

[T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.

I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.