Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.

If we could just trust the moment that we're in and live it in the way that you best can embrace it, it would be much better for all of us.

You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

I'm not happy unless I've got a little bit of fear going.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

Love is beyond the physical.

Hiding white lies only causesanxiety and low self- esteem.Melissa Mae Palmer (on living with a mysterious illness and not telling a soul)

It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.

The movie [Chicken with Plums] is very delicate, and you need to have people around you that understand what you're doing, otherwise it doesn't work.