At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

Collaboration. ... For me, it has informed every move I've ever made. And it saved me in many ways and still does. When things get hard, you can cling to the work.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.