There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

You should try to avoid using the words "should" and "try".

Sometimes, when you really want to get to know a person but have boundaries that prevent you from doing so, you learn about them as much as you can.

...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.

I love garlic, and I use it often.

If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.

Sometimes we know not where or how far we are going until we stop and think about just how far we have come and why.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.