A lot of cinema is about the game of authenticity - do you feel it's real?
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.
'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that
I haven't actually studied acting at all.
Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.
You always have to stimulate the senses.
The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
Our teams always play hard.
My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do teach.
Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
I happen to be black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both, but that is not the totality of my identity.
I think Steve Jobs is my idol.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Silence was never written down.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.