What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer

If we're afraid to be ourselves, then who are we? Where's there left to hide?But if we could concur that fear, we just might be strong, powerful. We just might be unstoppable.

Refuse to be called master, otherwise people will start thinking that whatever you say is right! Refuse to be called master!

Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them then move outwards one small step at a time.

Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.