Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.

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.

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.

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.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad.Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you--And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

I've been deflecting Calypso's blushes all day. I don't have the energy to deflect yours, " he said through clenched teeth. "So either block or strip." -- The Twelfth House ~ The Elementals Book I

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.

You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and caring about the poorer, more disadvantaged section of our country.

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

I'm just delighted that this woman I love can be a mum again.