I find that a lot of women respond to my work in that it doesn't make them feel bad about themselves.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

I'm not the beautiful one.

I get sidetracked very easily.

I’m afraid to close my eyes, I’m afraid to open them

For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

...you never possess a cat; you are allowed to be in a cat's life, which, of course, is a privilege.

I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"

People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.