I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.

I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

I'm going to make love to you, Lanie. I'm not your first, but I will be the last.

Endurance is a good virtue.

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best.

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.