As a father, I wanted to make a movie that my kids can love.

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

I'm a version of the same person.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.

Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment.

You have to humor them you know." Lucile sighed lightly as the door closed. "Men can be boring, but they are necessary. One needs to learn to work around them. Don't you think so?

Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens to know.

I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.