The most important thing to do for me physiologically is to sleep when I'm tired. I love to sleep and it's very restorative.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.

To have a meaningful look on your face, you need to have a meaningful emotions deep inside you!

I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.

Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.

I'm here, and I know that it's finite; I know that I'm not going to always be here.

Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.

Everybody seems to know me. It's very strange

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.