The rating [of "Aquarius"] was eventually brought down to 16 after the third appeal. Everything blew up after the second appeal because the press picked it up and spurred suspicions of persecution.

It's a great role for any age. Any actress wishes they would find a screenplay that means as much to them as "Aquarius" meant to me, as a person and a citizen.

The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know.

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.

I think of a movie as a human body. You can feel the pump of the heart and the blood going through the veins when you watch that scene.

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

Women at my age they are making love, they are feeling sensual, they flirt, they have boyfriends, they have a sexual life. They are just not being represented in the movies.

It makes sense that somebody told you that you made the film from your perspective as a father.

I'm not saying that we need more stories about people of a certain age, we just need more great stories about people.

Depression is not the lack of happiness, it's the imbalance of it.

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth, ” he said, with annoying clarity.

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.

What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along.

Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it.