The closest to Hepburn is Cate Blanchett.

I think one thing that always attracted me to movies was the personalities. I went to movies not because the stories necessarily appealed to me, but because of the people in them.

I can't imagine any one more delightful to sit and talk with about movies on a regular basis.

There are not that many people in the movies today that really make me go out and buy a movie ticket.

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.

America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax.

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.

I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie.

My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.

Never underestimate a bookworm

We feel fighting for dominance actually shows weakness. It's much harder to hold back the wolf than to let it have free rein.

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's a good painting, you know? No, he considered shooting himself, and one day he did.

To abandon yourself to rage is often to bring upon yourself the fault of another.

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.