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Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.

No. In my eyes, she was most beautiful because at a time when she had every right to be terrified, she managed to show comfort to another person who needed it.

I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.'

I don't remember myself to be a forefront fighter, but when pushed to a point with a wall behind me, there is only one way forward. Later you can call it a Rambo syndrome, but I never regret it, as it comes naturally to me, and in my mind, that is the only way.

Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.

I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

I think you better hurry along with that French toast making, Stud. You know—before my fetus eats your face.” “It would be equally as delicious.

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

I usually don't talk for three days after a defeat. Then you have an epiphany and realise it's just a game.

We are manipulating machine intelligence, and in the process, we have forgotten to effectively utilize the true potential of our own mind, let alone focus on improving the mind. We are developing artificial intelligence and have forgotten to develop our own psyche.

When reeling a fish in to not simply feel “the power of wildness intimately but the same time recognize the right of that wildness to continue”.

Working with Spike Lee was a dream of mine. It was amazing to be able to collaborate with such a visionary.

In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.