The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

The world is full of fools and foolishness

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.

I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.

Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

I keep saying I'm going to cut back on styling, but it's hard to give up.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.