People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

I don't believe in karma.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.

Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.

I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.

Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things in His time.