I am an atheist. I don't believe in Zeus.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

I eat the hearts of girls and puke slugs and snails.

It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.

The stars are on the inside. They are effing beautiful.

If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!

Real is better, The truth is better. Painful but better.

Asking's the easy bit. Then there's everything that comes after.

My dad was a magician too. Got in his car and disappeared.

i could go if i wantedshare the floorboards with someonein a place less haunted but i like it hereand i’m happy to stay in this mess on my ownin this home i have built for myself in my bones

You’re not like other girls, you know that, right?’ Ed asks.‘I’ve been aware of the problem, ’ I tell him.

I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.

Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts.

The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.