“You can experience when you’re in love, especially the first love when you think you’re going to die.”

I’m not saying that negatively. It’s healthy.

A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.

Of course, it’s always complicated to shoot a sex scene.

I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation.

It’s hard to be natural in a scene when you pick up the phone and no one is there.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

In the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.

So I think the longer you do stand-up, the more comfortable you are. You stop wanting to hide your foibles and instead want to show who you are.

I can’t help but think that it was on purpose, to attract the prince’s affections. No matter what I do, I’ll still have the fate of a girl who just keeps getting hurt, wondering if she can be happy in this pointless, one man show?

When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture.

There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.

You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.

If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.