I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

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.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Every parent is a teacher... But not all parents teach.

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

It's never been done doesn't mean it can't be done.

Movement overcomes cold.

He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.