Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
It's interesting to talk to my mom about her character in Wild at heart, because she sees her as a mother who's just trying to protect her baby from a bad boy. I think that's why it works so beautifully - she has conviction about what she's doing.
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.
If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.
I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.