I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

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.

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.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

It is better to think of all the beauties of life than to be bitter.

What's skateable is limitless by design.

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

You may be gone but you're never over.

My strength has always been slow songs, so I never deviated from that, I always took care of my base and that's just doing slow songs and just pouring out my heart in songs.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.