It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

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.

Love is our strength to overcome the evils of the world.

The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!

An hour of my time is a tiny price to pay for all the support I've gotten from my fans.

Tortured for the Republic.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

The journey of life - we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.

The warrior of the light has a destiny to fulfill.

Who asks a king for a penny?