We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.

I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes to (a person's) last thought.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

I live in too many cities.

no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.