I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

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.

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

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.

You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.

... To be in time means to change.

I love you all - if you are not people!

It seems everyone's so worried about getting hurt that they forget about letting love happen.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now

Saving just one pet won't change the world but surely the world will change for that one pet.

Oh no. I got a customer service person from another country.

I don't think investment is that hard. It's doing the simple things on a regular basis.

Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to have the problems.