To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities.

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

I'm definitely someone that's private. I've never been interested in celebrity.

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.

I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

I've written a lot of music, so to be able to put that together and play some shows around the country and elsewhere - that would really be a fun thing to do.

Young girls and mass murders are tender hearted creatures

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.

Temper justice with mercy.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.