They didn't guarantee you'd come out a whole person.

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.

This is my vision-what I imagine I'll pass through on my way to the light. The blue sky, the clouds, the rays of light.

...the man of my dreams is a girl.

Really? It seems too good to be true. I don't trust it. I don't trust anyone.

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

No one ever found out what was happening inside me. How the pain was eating me away. No one ever came to my rescue, or stood up for me.

What's the point of living if you don't belong anywhere?

What you see, isn't always what you get

Is that all I am? A friend?" "Of course not," I say. "I love you." "Am I the only one?" she asks. "Yes. Completely." First, last, and always.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It all has to be there.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

Don't forget how you got here. Don't Forget.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.