There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.

I've stayed good friends with most of my girlfriends.

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false start and most of us are usually taught that ... you've got to stand on your own. Then you can build something extraordinary.

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.