Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.

When I was eight years old, I knew I wanted to make films.

Good acting should be invisible. You shouldn't be aware of the acting. It should feel real.

Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you.

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

The hours I spent with thee dear heart Are as a string of pearls to me I could them over every one apart My rosary my rosary.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

We've got some Democrats who are actually Tea Partiers right now. We need to build coalitions with them.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.