The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

The heart of another is a dark forest.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.