I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside.

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

France will always be a great nation.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

He traveled in order to come home.