I've distilled everything to one simple principle: win or die!

The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.

Everybody in love is blind.

Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.

I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there.

Free people will set the course of history.

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.

You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years.

Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky as we think we are.

I actually think there is hell because we see hell every day.