The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.

God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.

Love shouldn't come with conditions.

Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.

There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.

In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong." Anyway, it's fiction.