I like complicated women. I like women with strength and contradictions.

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.

If we could just trust the moment that we're in and live it in the way that you best can embrace it, it would be much better for all of us.

You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

I'm not happy unless I've got a little bit of fear going.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.

If I'm ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged -- but not until I'm down to a size eight.

Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.