To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

If you enjoy sticking a straw in a dog's ear, don't sit next to the pooch with a milkshake.

The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.

My fan fiction is canon.

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

I hope that people who don't live with animals will appreciate that each animal is a unique individual with a rich inner life.

In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.