I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

Whatever problem you have can be solved through solitude.

...being a weatherman in Ireland is about the biggest scam going.

The vampires win every time.

'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.

Making a movie with Lindsay Lohan is not for the faint of heart.

Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.