Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'
I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.
If you can make someone tear up a little bit and feel something in their throat, those are the best kinds. That generally means that there's got to be some love in there.
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.
I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.
I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.
There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.
I feel really lucky that, in my career, I've gotten a chance to explore a lot of different genres and kinds of films.
For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism. . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves.
There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.
There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.
As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.
There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says "don't worry - everything will be just fine" and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Germans, Frenchmen and Englishmen can say of themselves: "I am the state. " I cannot say that. In Russia only the people in the Kremlin can say that. All other citizens are nothing more than human material with which they can do all kinds of things.
Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.