I hope that people who don't live with animals will appreciate that each animal is a unique individual with a rich inner life.

All my films have found distribution and prestige in the Japanese market, so I actually feel my films are very well received and seldom misunderstood.

Some questions are more complicated than their answers could be.

The wisdom of all ages and cultures emphasizes the tremendous power our thoughts have over our character and circumstances.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.

Military solution in Iraq has been disproven and discredited.

Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.

I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

We don't want to be the same as men, merely equal as human beings.

There is no power greater than true affection.