I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage – they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see.

I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the ’60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

I love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

I’m on the autism spectrum. I don’t usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

If I’m in a bad mood, or if I’m uncomfortable, it’s probably what I’m wearing that’s making me feel that way.

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I’m so fair.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.