It's not like I have a master plan or anything.

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.

It's not like I have a master plan or anything.

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face.

I think because I've maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.

Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.

I think it's sort of disrespectful to the partner you're having sex with to talk about it.

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

The better-informed we are, the more we can do to make sure what's happening is in our interests and is accountable to us.

The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work.

It's OK to stand back. But it's also good to demonstrate that it's fun to be involved. As long as you are willing to say, 'This looks fun. I'd like to try this, too,' your child will mimic your example of openness, playfulness and optimism.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that's the end of it.

People acquire a dog, don't understand it, can't train it, get fed up, and... offer it for adoption, hoping to pass on the problem to somebody else. But nobody wants a problem dog.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

I sometimes feel like it's difficult for people to relate to me, until they spend, like, a day with me, and until they walk around with me in public.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

To be in circumstances that are working upon us that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things that is all we need.

I never get recognised.

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.