It’s an amazing bond with your child. Some cultures do it up to five years, normally. I thought, 'Well, I’ll just do it as long as it feels right for my son.'

Every penny from Gossip Girl, my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

It has never ever been a bad thing in Hollywood to be sleeping with a director who's just won an Oscar or the hot new movie star whose face is on the cover of 'Time' magazine.

The beauty of learning is that it liberates us from poverty.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

I don't know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.

Firstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author.

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.