Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me."

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.

It's just nice to be able to communicate and be able to identify with a lot of different cultures. I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

When people start talking, things happen.