If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

Just being famous feels cheap to me.

The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.

I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.

Rick Rubin and my father had a great friendship and it's because of it that the work my dad did at the end of his life was created - that he felt creativity and invigorated again, even though he was being consumed by frailty.

I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

I first wrote for adults, but when I started writing for young people, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life. I was able to express my own deepest feelings far more than I ever could when writing for adults.