The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.

I am very much in love with no one in particular.

I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.

There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.

Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.

If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.

My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.

I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.

What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours.

It's shocking how bright your star is.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.