The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

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.

How we care for ourselves gives our brain messages that shape our self-worth so we must care for ourselves in every way, every day.

Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit?

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable.

I usually dive head first and am really excited about that changes.

The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

The lows are disappointing but that makes the highs much sweeterThat's what drives you to compete.