I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.

The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one.

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

I'm 51. So I'm just saying, 30 years from now you're going to have a different outlook. That's what a midlife crisis is.

I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.

I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

I'm drawn to people that have tasks to do.

I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

I'm not miserable, but I can't not be angry.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

If it's going to really make them happy for me to do it, I'll do Walken. I've got no problem with it at all.

Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like.

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.

In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.