"Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year."

"Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do."

"I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess."

"You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered."

"Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do."

"I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched."

"The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness."

"The paradox of freedom is that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."