There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

Americans are attracted to the dark side. But which movies should be allowed to be violent and show that dark side, and which should not? I don't believe in censorship, but I do think there are horrible movies that are bad for you.

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

Going to the Far East was my first eye-opener to a world vastly different from my own. Then when I was 16 I lived in Paris for a year and studied mime. At 21 I went to Indonesia. I had planned to go for three months, but I stayed four years. I just got lost in the culture.