We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.

You don't need to be a star to be a bright and shining one to that friend in need.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

I'm in a no-win situation. If I have my kids in the show, I'm exploiting them. If I don't, people will think I'm not a hands-on mom.

I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone.

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

What exactly are the ingredients of Ranch dressing? Mayo and disappointment?

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.