I don't find myself to be the kind of person who is easily swayed.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

I think life is about falling in love with the right person, shopping, eating our favorite desserts and traveling a lot.

I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.

Let me hear your body talk.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.

Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

The fact is, 'Billy Elliot' is an incredible show, for any age and any gender. 'Degrassi' fans would absolutely fall in love with 'Billy Elliot.'

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

I was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors.

No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.