Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

What am I hanging around for? But I'm hanging around because it's still fun.

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that I've gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling like I've been shafted.

You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

Some people get married and they remain "I," some get married and become "we."

To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.

Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.

When you get mad, it's the time you lose

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

Obviously I am not bothered about men's fashion - is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross?

Make sure you have legal cover for what you're doing.

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky.

Do not press an enemy at bay.