The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
I was compiling a list in my head titled 'Reasons to Get Up: You Don't Have to Leave, but You Can't Pee Here.
I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information. . . . my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of 'loving each other very, very much,' explained that when a man and a woman hug tightly, the man plants a seed in the woman. The seed grows into a baby. Then she sent me to the pantry to get placemats. As a direct result of this conversation, I wouldn't hug my father for two months.
If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.
I was surprised by how much I loved Portland. It is so wonderfully creative without being artsy. Great food scene.
Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.
Casting is sometimes like going to a party. You get there and everybody at the party is wonderful. They're funny, they're interesting, and the next time you go to a party, you kind of want those same people there. I do find myself going back to a lot of the same actors I've worked with because it was fun, it was good and I know they can do the job. When we have tight deadlines to cast a project, that's how some decisions are made.
The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!
The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.
There are two kinds of investors, be thay large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know.