I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices.
Chemistry is so important and so unpredictable. Sometimes you get in a room with someone where aesthetically you make perfect sense as a couple, and then you read, and you're both kind of sitting there like, 'This isn't working for some strange reason; it just doesn't really pop.'
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.
To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.
Casey Affleck is someone I want to work with again. We almost had him on 'Pete's Dragon,' but his scheduling issues didn't work out.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular person in a particular situation; a unique, one-off motive that is born out of someone's particular range of psychological afflictions.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs.
I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.
I'd like to be with someone kind who can hold a conversation and is in my age group. If that's too much to ask, I'll do without.
Ageism is interesting for me because I've been playing someone in my 40s since I was 20 or so, but I have experienced it. I've been lucky in that I haven't had to play the ingenue and feel that slip away.
I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.
In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
