Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?"
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.
When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.
That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.
You get ideas from other people all the time.
When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.
I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.
It's a job and we're going to work together for six months, so let's have a good time.
I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.