When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

That you can be whatever you want to be, whoever you want to be, regardless of your gender.

When you believe that you can do something that's when you can do it.

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.