I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

Your vision helps you filter your decisions or choices and directs your actions.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Fate has a strange way of making plans.

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.

The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

I'm a huge E! fan. Every hotel room, I watch it all the time. 'E! News' is fantastic.

I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.