I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.

Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

You double your intensity with skill.

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.