Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

The other thing I've been discussing with friends is: when you're born do you start at a zero, or five?

The victims of Ankara peace rally sacrificed their lives for peace and their only wish was We Want Peace.

What's more important than recycling? Producing something to recycle.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.