I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the establishment of good...

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before that way is found or followed.

The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...

Nothing is as important as your calling and purpose in life.

I had a quack in the floor. So, I had to use ductile.

My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.

It's not that I'm broken, and it isn't that I bleed. But when you pulled the stars from the heavens, it got so hard to see.

Logic is no answer to passion.

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.

I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.