I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.
Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.
I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.
In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.
I really kill myself on titles, although 'The 5th Wave' seems like an obvious title, doesn't it? You don't know how long that took me.
I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky.
When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.
I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.
Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don't make one move seem natural, it can give away all of it.
Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself.
Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.
I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.
It seemed to me that I was put on earth to take care of people. That is what I should be doing, and I never got tired of it.
I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.
God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals
I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.
While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.
Magic will find those with pure heats, even when all seems lost. And love is the greatest magic of all. I know this to be true.
