Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting and of all relationships.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

In 1983, before computers came along, it wasn't easy to do electronic basslines and rhythms.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.

Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.

It's just a reality of the business model. People are outsourcing a lot more, and China has established a pretty good infrastructure.

I have always tried to stay current.

Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.