When a woman wins an Oscar for telling a story from a woman's point of view, that's going to be the win. That's the moment.

For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.

It's always hard to analyze what your own style is.

I'd like to do what I see in my head. I always feel like I'm directing with one hand tied behind my back.

There's definitely something about the acting that's the most fun.

If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.

Doubt breeds doubt.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Whenever I've been bitten, it's because I made a mistake. I either misread the dog's body language or let my guard down at the wrong time.

We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.