What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

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 crash into each other just so we can feel something.

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.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.

Until you can let go of everything, you will find it hard to hold onto anything.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

Keep an open heart To allow the world Lovingly and faithfully To come in.

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

Well, honor is the subject of my story.