You can say anything you want about how the brain works and people will believe you. Really, our brains are hard-wired like that.

I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.

My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.

Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.

I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.

The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.

A lot of people have the ambition, but they never ask themselves, Do I really believe I can do this?

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.

Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.

I have no idea why, and this is others' observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these very complicated personalities. I guess I enjoy corralling that.