Around here, we're as happy as God in France.

If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated.

In one way or another, every parent is curious what their children... what are they doing when we don't see?... What double lives are they leading? Is there something else?

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.

The stupid woman is the one who thinks she doesn’t need any help.

When I'm writing I get easily bored.

When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.

When the conversation turns too quickly to films, I see it as a sign of weakness.

I live not in myself, but I becomePortion of that around me: and to meHigh mountains are a feeling, but the humof human cities torture.

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

While I was yearning for happiness I became happy.

...in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.

With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.

Think like a head coach, but act like an assistant coach