I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.

I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.