I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.

When you create art, the world has to wait.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.

I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.