I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

waitingin a life full of little storiesfor a death to come

The light within us gives power for good actions.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

High-quality professions look decently, think profoundly, and act thoughtfully.

Surely you may happen to get loston the way, but naturally that issimply how you find your self.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.

I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.

I just think if you're gonna play a show you should try and look nice.