I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you're uncomfortable doing something; then it's going to be...

I wrote 'Paava Kadhaigal' the same way I wrote my feature films 'Irudhi Sutru' or 'Soorarai Potru.' I was more honest in this film rather, because you can afford to be real and get away with it.

I really put my feet into my music, I have a say in how I want my music to sound and where I want it to go which is great.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

I love getting to be creative with work!

I made and created a show that my family was all on board with, and we were so excited because we got to work together.

I kind of feel like with a musical, there's so few original musicals that people just don't know what to expect.

An editor does not just join shots. He creates emotions out of the shots.

You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out.

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could...

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.

I obviously love 'The Grey'; that was a pleasure to make. It was also very difficult. Listen, I love 'Smokin' Aces.' That was a lot of fun to make. Completely different part of your brain, I guess....

It's good to write about love because it never goes out of fashion. And I'm quite a romantic.

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited,...

I was really not into school. Everything was distracting to me. I would have a beat in my head or a song. I was always not paying attention, just daydreaming.

The first gift my husband ever gave me was a pack of index cards. I'm pretty sure the second was a 'Powers' scriptbook. This was well before either of us worked for Marvel.

I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

I had to be different in order to be interesting because audience always wants something fresh and new.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.

You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

One day I was in the grocery store, and I saw raspberries, and I was like, 'Oh, I can make a lip stain out of that.'

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't...

Just making 'Black Rainbow' was like my minimum requirement before death, so that I could die with some honour and not in total shame.