Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe.

We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

Some people handle sweets better.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

I always find that when I do something that I like, from my heart, then it works.

I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

I'm a benevolent dictator.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

Smart ones learn from their mistakes, wise ones learn from their and others mistakes

Live for the moment but do it the smart way so you can experience more nice moments !!

I feel like all I've done lately is play really sexually-charged drug addicts. I don't know what's wrong with me. I've gotta go to Disneyland more and get more excitement.

Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Niggards are oftentimes neat.

I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.

Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.