To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

I'm a version of the same person.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.

The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the neasure of our bodies are the same

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.]

I don't know who you're referring to exactly who said, 'What has Iraq done to us?'

I worry when I can’t help the team with everything I have to offer.

I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.