I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

We are growing serious and let me tell you that's a very next step to being dull.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.

Love is sharing your popcorn.

Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.

One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.

Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today.

One must take what comes, with laughter.

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.