A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

Dissembling is a common tool of the anger junkie.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.