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

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.

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

The other thing I've been discussing with friends is: when you're born do you start at a zero, or five?

Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

WE ALMOST NEVER think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular

The most delightful advantage of being bald one can hear the snowflakes.

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but it's true.

All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.

If people want me to go round and talk to governments and others then I feel that responsibility which is why I am on the road a good deal of the time and why I'm not slowing down.

You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor.