There was a sense of being taken on a journey by the grandmaster of the road trip. You feel this weird angel taking you somewhere. You don't know where, but you trust him.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.

Because whatever I feel inside, it has a place to go. It just saves me over and over and over again.

Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

Christ, because of who He is, can look death in the face.

I just have to prove to myself, I don't have to prove to fans.

When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

I am not faithful but I am attached.

You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!

My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind.

It doesn't matter if you're right, it matters if you are understood.