There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

We speak the truth because we live in truth.

Like any organic entity, a system of consciousness manifests itself through the orderly, differentiated development of a certain unifying reality.

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions.

At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.

I'm a sexual person. A lot of different people turn me on and have over the years, and I've always wanted to make it very clear that this was not coming from some sort of antimale point of view.

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.