It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.

That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There’s only a succession of waitings until you go home.)

She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of people at each other's throat, everybody in a state of upset and talking about her.

When I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women.