I think in a way you're doomed once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Everybody has something that chews them up and for me that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely even when you are.

In the Old Testament it says that if you have the power to do something good then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed you can have it and possess it but if you open your fingers in any way you can lose it just as quickly.