One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

As the number of studies increased, it became clear that writing was a far more powerful tool for healing than anyone had ever imagined.

Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated

The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life’s traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the positive.

Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases.

The act of not discussing or confiding the event with another may be more damaging than having experienced the event per se.

You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.

I would never say no to anything that sounded interesting! The thing I like about making films is that the adventure just begins when you pick up the camera.

I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.

I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view.

A tip for looking 'picture perfect' is probably a smile. I think everyone looks better when they are happy you give off a glow - or at least that is what my mum would say!

We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish.

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.