Nobody's safe around a writer.

If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.

You have to take calculated risks in life.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.

That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

Has anyone ever told you that you lack focus?

What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom.

The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.