I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.

Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

Newspapers should have no friends.

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery.

June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.