As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking artists what their art means.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

There is so much in the world to care about.

Everything you seek is achieved from within not without. You know what is right and what is wrong for you because you feel it.

The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

The difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.

I think it's cool when an ex-girlfriend becomes an XL girlfriend.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.