When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

I really think that people's right to happiness shouldn't be dictated by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I've come to know a lot of people that - sexual orientation is such where they're in love with people from the same sex, and I just don't think it's our role in the government to say, 'No you can't be married.'

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

The best feeling in the world for me is when my parents say they are proud of me; I just want to give them all the happiness that they deserve.

Everything has to do with meditation. It's a conversation; it's a joy - it's everything.