A chainsaw's God's way of evening out the playing field between you and everything, even the invisible stuff.

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect

You are giving me words to write and that's even better than butterflies.

Help your child see others' emotions as well as experiencing his or her own without imposing your judgment.

If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.

My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

I hope people come to the shows because they feel like there's something there that I can't necessarily articulate, but it's real and it's fun.

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.