Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors.

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

I like to write about love plus an obstacle. Not a really big obstacle; not too serious and not too funny. Just somewhere nicely in between - a combination of the two.

You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

There are people who are put on this earth to do everything.

I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also less like television, which is important.

I think everybody has a little rule follower and a little rule breaker in them.

It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure.

Sometimes you go against what they say because you believe in it anyway.

Your life would never have a meaning if you don’t have a goal or purpose

Dreams come true for sure...thats it, no other facts or philosophy...they may take a life time of yrs or somebody else but they are there in your heart or in your mind to change into reality.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

I was just talking to Bono the other day, and he was like, "Are you doing shows?" I've just been off the road for a month-and-a-half, and he was like, "You lucky girl."

I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner.

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.