To allow the fear to come on you and then pass through. If you keep cutting the fear off by intervening - let's say, taking a Xanax to try to cure it - you'll never understand what fear is really for. Fear is part of a survival mechanism. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

I don't see myself stopping, even though it gets harder and harder. Especially when you find out that you can't really compromise because of age.

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.