I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

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.

Sometimes just breathing is enough.

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.

Remember the law of the home: Junk expands to fill the space available, plus one room.

A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.

I love very much to draw animals.

Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.