Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

I felt a surge of love for my aunt. We disagreed about so many things, yet here was family: the people who kept dancing with you, even after the music stopped.

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.