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.

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.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself.

Man can never go backwards, but his past can light the way for his journey.

Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand.

A treasure...at the top of any list of fantasy to be cherished.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

And it follows that I am, because you are: it follows from 'you are', that I am, and we: and, because of love, you will, I will, we will, come to be.

I'm confident in some of the things that I wear, regardless of what other people are wearing.

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.