Her legs are two rivers, and the delta where they bleed into each other is the well of ecstasy.

The paths carved by the divine carpenter into her palms are actually treasure maps showing the way to heaven.

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.

A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.

I try to make movies that I love and that I'm passionate about and that I'm proud of.

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

It's the same as saying, you know, "I'll smoke, but that's up to me." Doctors don't recommend it. I don't recommend smoking. It's a bad idea. Smoking or spanking. Bad ideas.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.