When folks get to the best of their profession, people are like, "Who am I to give a critique to this individual who's reached mastery?".

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless.

Not to be able to find one’s ‘own’ faults

It’s your hero complex, isn’t it? You should see someone about that.” “Right after I get my head examined.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

I love the shows that are in dingy little dark clubs, smoky, no production whatsoever.

I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.