As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.

Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.

After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.

We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are.

Death doesn’t have to be the end of it. Our love for her is stronger than the grave.

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

I don't drop players. I make changes.

If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.

The Buddhist concept is that it takes 48 days to get near this state [of death]. So it's a slow process, moving into, not a permanent death, but the world of the dead.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don't know what I would be doing without it.