Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.