464Joy is found in the breath of acceptance knowing that all is well in our world, if we surrender with grace.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

When you love something, it never goes away.

For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals

No matter how big a company is, one has to always look at business basics.

I want to save the world but I haven't worked out a way to save myself yet.

How come they get to be gray-haired and still in love with each other, while Lilly tears out what's left of my heart and dumps it into her Jill-The-Ripper shredder?

Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.