Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.

I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

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

When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

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

Growing up I had amazing parents who really let me be creative and free. I was the youngest of three by six years, the child who was the outsider and observer. When I went off to Boston to act, I was very young - 10. And my parents didn't fear that. They had the respect to let me make my choices.