Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.

I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.

I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.