I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

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.

Once the tugboat takes you out to the ocean liner, you got to get all the way on board. Can't straddle both decks.

Shy, what is it? I say it is intrigued by pride and hesitated by a feeling of being unworthy.

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

Do you often sleep tied to the bed?

I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.

You live and you learn.

Donald Trump says he's going to change the no-guns policy at his resorts. I can't wait to see that.

D'Artagnan is the youngest of the four, and they're like his big brothers. They bring him up and teach him the ways of what it's like to be a Musketeer, and he embraces it with open arms.

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.