More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Right understanding is that which finds happiness in the state of unhappiness.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

Strive to make every person feel special. After all, every person you meet is made in the image of God.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

the kind of kiss that said, I want to consume every inch of you and hear you scream my name.

That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.

Impossible, that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.