"It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'."

"The good things never stay in your head. Only the bad things live on."

"I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American pioneer like the Dohenys or the Rockefellers or something."

"Vampires are always going to be sexy."

"Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one."

"The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work."

"The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it."

"I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next."