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.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

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.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Either we are running ‘from’ what we fear, or running ‘to’ what we fear. The former is a choice driven by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.

Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.

Behavior has consequences, and stupid behavior often has terrible consequences.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

Despite what I do for a living, I am very insecure about my body.

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.

In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.

It's crazy to say that after three games [without a goal] I was in crisis. I do not care whether I score or not, what matters is that the team win and continue to do so.