"I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability."

"Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary."

"I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better."

"Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements."

"Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly."

"I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in."

"On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave."

"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"