Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Because my parents had given me tremendous respect, trust, and freedom as a child, I knew how to take responsibility for myself. If you're constantly being told "No, don't do that" or "We don't trust you," you can't develop that responsibility.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.