...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.

There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.

There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

The more we grow in faith, the more we grow in love.

Cats don't like change without their consent.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

Mustard's no good without roast beef.

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.