All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.
There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.
An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.
Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.
When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.
Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.
True power is given to the vulnerable.
Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can be expected in return
Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
I'm especially interested in relationships since that is a part of life that causes enormous pain for many people.
To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.
Why do you think people close their eyes when they kiss? Think about it. In the real world, if you saw someone an-inch-and-a-half away, coming at you with their eyes open and their lips puckered, you'd scream. It's alarming.
The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me.
'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a place I had never been and took over two years of my life. I don't think the people in this book would have said the things to me that they did if they perceived me as a reporter.
