When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell and it's actually been really nice.

One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.

If you give your work life, your work will give you life. Vies-versa

However apart, soulmates never part.

Turn in your guns at your local church

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.

If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it!

It was believed by the purveyors of male fantasies in films that nurses were a popular male fantasy because they were caring, and they were women who could legitimately touch men all over.