There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

Youth has become a class.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

God answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is you've got to be kidding!

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

Yo. I'm from Beverly Hills, and I be pimpin'.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

I wanted nothing more than to feel something, but I didn't know how to deal with what came after the feeling.

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager.