As I found out making this last movie ["Method"], if you ever do things in an unusual, different way, you got to fight because there's no way people will let you.

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.

I know I'm part of the changing process of the way we look at things.

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

When somebody say no, it's a red flag to a bull to me.

I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just being given the freedom to do something.

I remain in a state of surrender knowing the Universe is supporting me in creating a life I love.

There are some people who walk into your life and shed a new light in your entire being. Be grateful to such people.

you can't have her. though you know she loves youand you would not be far from her . will be always empty without her at your side

I only wish to read, think and write.

...big, strapping macho guys were like liquid diets--they were great for emergencies, but she wouldn't want to be on one all the time.

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.

You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes - the wall, the wall!

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.