I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Evil will Never win from Righteousness

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

Unless the U.N. is completely reorganized without the Communist nations in it, we should get out of it.

On great fields something stays.

Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.

Those whom we support hold us up in life.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.