We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.