My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

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.

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

The word fate... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

I happen to like vampires more than zombies.