It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.

Fair is irrelevant. This is the law – it has nothing to do with justice.

We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are startled by the slightest noise.

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

Nobody, nobody, perhaps in the history of politics was worse to women or abused women more than Bill Clinton.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

I was just watching "So You Think You Can Dance," flipping channels, and I was like man, I could never do that.