I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English. I prefer to do my research in books.

They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.

Sometimes sentiments were better left in song.

When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I found speaking to actors to be so challenging and intimidating on set.

I think that "ambition" is a weird and often negatively used word.

The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

Life was sucked from me, not any life, my life. And so it goes…..

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.