You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Happiness is a perceptual reality, not an absolute certainty.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.

The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building.

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

I don't have a girlfriend. No, I don't. I haven't had a relationship in years, actually. But yeah, I'm still looking. It's kind of nice to be looking for a home at the same time.

A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Immerse yourself in nature’s symphony and let your senses burst with joy.