I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.

You have seen me at my worst and at my weakest. Let me show you my best.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.

There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar.

Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.