I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

I always win.

People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.