Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

Ah, in work, love and the movies, everything is a fight.

Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is.

Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

Atheists are not Americans.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.

I feel like creating things without getting too hung up on little details, and paying more attention to the importance to the concept itself, is the way to move forward.

Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!