Comedy or villain, the role does not matter as long as it is challenging.

I am not trained to be a director or an actor. I have learnt everything by watching other people work and studying their work.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong....

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give...

Each season I strive to design a forward - thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked, and I am so...

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

I recently discovered Artkive, a wonderful app that allows you to archive your child's artwork and create cool gifts like photo albums, mugs, mousepads, etc. It's very easy to use, and since Arabella...

I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I share humor with them. Then I keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform, because you never know...