A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.

Be careful whom you confine in.

I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses.

Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.

And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show

I would be psyched to get a phone call from Al Sharpton. I need to find out who does his hair. It's beautiful. It's a gorgeous mane.

The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.

If you really want to be successful and you really want to be happy, don't have a job, have a purpose. ...When you've got a purpose, the whole world is your office.