She thinks she is white, ' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

We co-existed in peaceful detachment

What it is, ” she sighed, “to have to choose between self and security.

And then depression set in....

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love, ' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

If you have to 'try hard' to 'try hard, you are already beaten.

I thought of myself as part of the general filmmaking effort. And as my scope broadened, I began to think about directing. I wanted to be the guy who got to say whether the dress is red or blue.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.