I am Marc Jacobs by birth, but we are Marc Jacobs by the company that we built.

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

You can never please everyone, and I think it's best not to.

Let's do what we love and do a lot of it.

I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.

Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

There is never a wrong time for a polka dot.

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.

What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.

The eyes of others our prisons

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.

You've got to be a little bored to be doing really good training.

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.