There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

You can’t know what is impossible until you are willing to venture past what is possible.

Writing is a product of silence.

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

Seeing occurs, of course, through stopping thought. Thought is the fog. When thought stops in meditation, at any point, when there's no thought, we see the other shore.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

As we serve our jobs we serve the world.

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

You only live once and, usually, not even then.

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.