Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that the present has a chance to expand into a golden eternity of here and now.

All living relationships are in process ofchange, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms. But there is no singlefixed form to express such a changing relationship.

Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.

...the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

When you go to a movie, you don't care for one Oscar, really. Do you care if a guy got a Oscar on the shelf or is it a good movie? And, you don't care how much the movie made.

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I know about that I don't.

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.