I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.

If everybody loves you, you must be doing something wrong. It means there's no button being pushed... The only way that everybody loves you is toward the end of your career.

I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.

Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.

I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

In the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, there were many gay men who were unable to come out about the fact that their lovers were ill, A, and then dead, B. They were unable to get access to the hospital to see their lover, unable to call their parents and say, 'I have just lost the love of my life.'

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.