I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.
Every single wave, when I was overwhelmed and poor and struggling in New York, there were these extraordinary people in New York who said, 'Come this way.'
Think of energy almost like emotional electricity. It has a powerful way of uniting ordinary people, their connected spirit, to do extraordinary things.
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly.
I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.
Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems to be a way to extricate ourselves from helplessness.
I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
I'm not a party person. I'm a nerd. I'm not an extrovert in that way at all. The things I enjoy doing could be boring to somebody else.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Make eye contact with cute strangers. Give guys your email. Email is safer than a number, or at least it feels that way.
Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
Where I come from we believe in an eye for an eye. That's what we do. That's just the way it is.
At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.
You really don't need to wear any make-up most of the time; keep your eyebrows the way they are, and find your own natural beauty signature.
I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have always needed to distill what we're going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now.
I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.
When I first saw children's television, I thought it was perfectly horrible. And I thought there was some way of using this fabulous medium to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.
