Everyone's always scared for someone else's generation

Being a woman, in this world, ultimately makes you crazy.

Bad stuff happens, people are mean, there are no steps you can take that ensure the world leaves you alone. All you can do is try not to be one of those people who contributes to the bad.

Everyone's on the cliff edge of normal. Everyone finds life an utter nightmare sometimes, and there's no 'normal' way of dealing with it... There is no normal, Evelyn.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too.

That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

Heaven? I don't have an affinity with that place.

But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.