So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

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.

If you listen to music every day, you will strengthen your soul.

How could you expect people to treat you well, when you don't treat yourself right?

What's afterlife?" Asher asked, sincerely, indicating a trio of passing shoppers laden with brightly colored bags, who turned up their noses. "There's only life.

America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways but even if it won't do those things it remains the least constrained society on earth.

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

When someone deeply listens to you, your barefeet are on the earth, and a beloved land that seemed distant, is now at home within you.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.