You have to be steadfast, and right now I'm on a stream train forward to make.

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.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

No one knows the dead world? Only the dead spirits?

Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society.

Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.