I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it's up to the children to live up to those principles.

Not everyone has understanding, so everyone won't understand

It is hard to explain just how a single sight of a tangible object with measurable dimensions could so shake and change a man

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.

I would like to see a president with a monocle.

Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.