What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

I find it weird that people want to know about you.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

Four out of five doctors prescribe baseball for whatever ails you. The fifth guy is a quack.

Till the sun grows cold And the stars are old And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.

Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.

Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.

I wouldn't mind being taller or stronger.

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

There is nothing on earth that you can not have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.