A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech.

I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.

Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states.

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

Shun the praise of men and love the one who, in the fear of the Lord, reprimands you.

Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.

At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.

I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something.