I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

Creativity is a gift, but if you don't know how to use it you might not even know it's there. There's a lot of creativity in the air, but it's meaningless if you're not open to receiving it.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

I don't want to sound like a heroic woman or to seem full of myself, but I do have a core of trust that I'll figure things out and find my way. And if whatever I try is not a good experience, even that is a good experience. If something turns out lousy, it's interesting.

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

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