I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

I find it weird that people want to know about you.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.

He's an intelligent man, but it takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Friendship improves happiness, abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

When the jig is up, there is no need for additional dancing.

Friendship's the wine of life.

We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we’d gotten here. We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.