I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.

Sometimes a bit of distance can be very healthy. You can go away by yourself on a trip and come back very glad to be with your partner because you've cleared your head out of all the negativity.

A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other people break up or get divorced. I don't think anything is ever going to change that situation. You simply try to find an accommodation and an understanding with another person and work from there.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.