I love working with actors. I do.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth, " when it is clearly "Ocean.

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

I want to be a transitory fallen, lifted up by virtues every time.

...what we need is action - action!

I don't wear dresses all the time - it's nice to save those moments for certain occasions and to make it feel extra special.

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

Your creativity comes from the universal source of all creation, the source of all intelligence and wisdom.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

It's always difficult when you're on a show that goes for more than a year or a couple of years.

We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.