The depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Do not be afraid to walk the path that you must go just because you cannot see the end. The path becomes clearer as you continue to go on.

The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

There are rules about perception, but not about photography.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

Foppery is the egotism of clothes.