Everything gets old if you do it often enough.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.

We have to succeed, so we will.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

Like Toy Story, the joke is all about exploring the secret world of these various everyday objects.

The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.