movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

My cat is an ungrateful brat. -Nellie McKay

I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.

Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

I don't need to be married, but I feel married.

Passion is very important; if you don't love what you do then you're probably doing the wrong job.

For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.