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.

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.

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.

I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.

But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.

Stop glorifying yourself, start glorifying God almighty.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.

Death keepes no Calender.

My body is but the lees of my better being.

I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.

If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.

people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.