Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

I don't think any of us are normal people.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

Society prepares the crime the criminal commits it.

I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.

Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.

I love eye shadows that are shimmery and playing with colors. There's just more you can do with your eyes.

I've proposed reforms on taxes, regulations, and trade that will all have the effect of keeping jobs and wealth in America for our workers - and dramatically boosting incomes.

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.

I control every interaction with every human being I'm with. I can actually manage any situation with 98 percent of the people on Earth.