Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.

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.

There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

If I have to lose, although I am a woman, I want to lose in a manly way.

An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

I get so excited about reading a new script.

If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.