I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn’t hurt your appreciation of the painting.
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.
Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.
I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.
It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me.
I’d like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.
Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.
Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
I’ve always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
Privacy. Someday, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.