I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Follow your own weird.

Divine does not tempt us to see what's in our hearts, it tempts us so we could see what's in our hearts.

I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift of my messenger.

The thing is, though, that some of these people are my age, right? And I didn't know them. I didn't know Susan Sarandon. I mean, I'd seen her.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

Life doesn't need to be justified or judged.

By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.

It's amazing how much resilience you can have when you're passionate about a project that you're doing.