Yeah, I try to be really calm.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.

The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape.

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.