I think that if you do an American movie it's important to earn some money, but in a stupid way, to be respected.

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.

I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.

I want to go someplace where I can marvel at something.

No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago.

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

Everybody has a secret and everybody has problems.

I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.