I'd like to do what I see in my head. I always feel like I'm directing with one hand tied behind my back.

For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.

It's always hard to analyze what your own style is.

When a woman wins an Oscar for telling a story from a woman's point of view, that's going to be the win. That's the moment.

There's definitely something about the acting that's the most fun.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking.

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

What you become directly influences what you get.

Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.