I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

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.

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.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

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.