Innocence eroded into nightmare.All because of very bad touch.Love, corrupted.

Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

Forgiveness isn’t my best thing.Easier staying pissed. But I’mtired of being pissed all the time.Tired of feeling hurt by stuff thatcan never be fixed because it isan indelible part of the past.

...Things happenedwhen you were little. Things youdon't remember now, and don't wantto. But they need to escape, need to worm their way outof that dark place in your brainwhere you keep them stashed.

If you read stories, you find the strength, faith and hope to survive everyday life.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty sickness and captivity would without this comfort be insupportable.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

There should be a path to earned legal status for those that are here. Not - not amnesty - earned legal status, which means you pay a fine and do many things over an extended period of time.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

We're not all robots. There are emotions that creep in.

I have no problem at all taking my shirt off to tell a story.

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it.

As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer.

One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving.