❝I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.❞

❝I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.❞

❝Old pictures look really rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem happier than you are.❞

❝‎To have compassion for a character is no different from having compassion for another human being. When playing a character, to have compassion for them is to play them honestly. And so, I suppose, suffering with them is to suffer their arrogance, or their misogyny, or their insanity. I think that’s why, for example, Iago is as compelling as Romeo. Because within all of us there is the capacity to be anyone or anything. And that’s the place where compassion comes from - the understanding that ‘I could be like that, if circumstances had been different…’❞

❝Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.❞

❝All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn’t your pet — it’s your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.❞

❝If I can’t be beautiful, I want to be invisible.❞

❝The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.❞

❝I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.❞

❝To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free. The mystics and the churchmen talk about throwing off the body and its desires, being no longer a slave to the flesh. They don’t say that through the flesh we are set free. That our desire for another will lift us out of ourselves more cleanly than anything divine.❞