I want to try different genres. I think I'll still be looking at a strong female character in the center, and identity struggle and transformation.

I think all movies are political. The ones that are not political intentionally are the worst, and have the worst politics, I think.

I like the idea of a trilogy. It's cool. I like the word. When you do four, the word isn't cool - not as cool.

Being in a group is a way to actually to speak up, and define yourself in the comfort, and the complexity of the group.

I like to work around identification for the audience, and when there's a grown-up or a moral figure or something like that, people tend to go there.

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

We, as children of God, have an advantage over the world

If you are brave enough to empty yourself, then life will fill you again and again.

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.

I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom.

But the paparazzi are quite malicious and vocal and really rude, ... And they camped outside of my house, so I started throwing eggs at them, lobbing them at rocks next to them.

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

You need to modulate that unwarranted ire, buddy. I'm not your 'ho and you ain't my pimp