Amazing People: Quentin Tarantino

"I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything."

-Quentin Tarantino, director, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and Inglourious Basterds.

Amazing People: Ellen Page

"It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine... is often much harder to act."

-Ellen Page, actress, Juno, Whip It and Inception.

Amazing People: Robert Downey Jr.

"I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess."

-Robert Downey Jr., actor, Iron Man, Tropic Thunder and Sherlock Holmes.

Amazing People: Emma Stone

"I realize I have a lot of amazing opportunities, but I don't know how you can play a human being going through real human experiences without being able to walk down the street. If you can't live a real life, how do you play a real person? It always confuses me when actors work back-to-back-to-back with no break. If you live your life on a film set, how the hell can you relate to real people? You don't know what its like to not have people fussing over you all day, and that's not life - that's silly movies. I will always want to take breaks and I wouldn't be OK with losing that."

-Emma Stone, actress, Superbad, Zombieland and Easy A.

Amazing People: Cillian Murphy

"If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids."

-Cillian Murphy, actor, Breakfast on Pluto, Batman Begins and Inception.

Amazing People: Marion Cotillard

"My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else."

-Marion Cotillard, actress, La Vie En Rose, Public Enemies and Inception.

Amazing People: Andrew Garfield

“I hated school, I hated school. And I didn’t realize why. I thought I was…I was, I thought there was something wrong with me for hating school, for not being able to deal with school. At the time it was ingrained in me that school was: if you’re not successful in school you’re not going to be successful in life. And the hierarchy with the subjects at school, like the arts are given no credence. And if they are, it’s false credence. So, I look back on it and and I’m angry. I’m angry about it because, you know, there might be a brilliant ballerina somewhere in school who’s being forced to do maths, and she sees it difficult. But if she’s just allowed to express whatever gifts she has to offer then she would be happy and then she could make hundreds of thousands of other people joyous for a couple of hours per night.”

-Andrew Garfield, actor, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Never Let Me Go and The Social Network.

Amazing People: Cate Blanchett

"If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life--that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment--that would be the perfect state."

-Cate Blanchett, actress, The Aviator, I'm Not There and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Amazing People: Jesse Eisenberg

"I’ve never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I’m not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I’m supposed to act the same way they act and I don’t know how."

-Jesse Eisenberg, actor, Adventureland, Zombieland and The Social Network.

Amazing People: Anne Hathaway

"I look my best after an entire hair and makeup team has spent hours perfecting me. When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy."

-Anne Hathaway, actress, Brokeback Mountain, The Devil Wears Prada and Rachel Getting Married.

...and a happy birthday to the woman herself!

Amazing People: Leonardo DiCaprio

"I'm not really the quiet type, although some people think I am. But I'm the rebel type in the sense that I don't think I'm like everyone else. I try to be an individual."

-Leonardo DiCaprio, actor, The Aviator, Revolutionary Road and Inception.

...and a very happy birthday to the man himself!

Amazing People: Amy Adams

"Find out who you are and embrace it. It is so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin. Never let anyone or anything stop you unless it is you."

-Amy Adams, actress, Enchanted, Doubt and Julie & Julia.

Amazing People: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

"The whole concept of celebrity pisses me off. While I`m not a celebrity, it`s such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors."

-Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor, Brick, (500) Days of Summer, Inception.

Amazing People: Vera Farmiga

'I really don't feel a need to be famous. But I do feel a need to make a difference, to shed light on human emotion through acting.'

-Vera Farmiga, actress, Up in the Air, The Departed and Orphan.

Amazing People: Christopher Nolan

“I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.”

-Christopher Nolan, director: The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento.