To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

If nobody changes the world, if nobody works to make it better, then we stagnate.

The admiration you lavish on others phenomenally reflects the respect you give yourself.

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent; got kiss myself I'm so pretty.

Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.

I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.

I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me.