I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people's projections of what your experience is and their fear about it, and not seeing the experience you're having. There's nothing horrifying about it to me. It is what I deal with. It is my reality and my life, but it's not horrible.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.