You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.

I think of myself as a content creator and hopefully one day a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.

I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

When lust combines with love, feelings like dissatisfaction, lack of trust, lack of understanding, jealousy and possessiveness are produced

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Fame separates you from life.

I'm just going to do music and when I feel like I've gotten enough music to put an album together then that's when I'm going to do it.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.

That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.

Most collisions out on the fields are needless.