Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I like things that look like mistakes.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.

The Chinese, the Russians, the Nazis and Saddam Hussein all agree! Gun Control Works!

I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.

It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'

If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.

We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.

I'm 51 now, so there are less roles available.

Cherish your tears and their reasons, they will be the light of your smile, your inner peace and reconciliation.