As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~Pearl Buck

Ottawa is a city where nobody lives though some of us may die there.

You can't just put any four people together and it goes 'yaaaaah', y'know?

I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.