"As always, one of her books was next to her."

“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.”

“Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.”

“We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.”

Source : "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

“The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.”

“I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.”

“I want to give the audience what they want, but not at all costs. I want to leave them with something. I try to do that with every single movie I make.”