I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

I think anything is possible to anyone who dreams, dares, works and never gives up.

I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.

A movie that is unable to elicit emotion isn't a movie.

I love women in my heart but not in my undies.

I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.

I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

When I write a film, I have already made the trailer

I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.

I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

I do not see any numbers or anything

Never stop reminding yourself that God created you to be mentally and physically tougher than your struggles, challenges and obstacles.

Either you were the best of the best or you were nothing, and somehow that didn't seem right.

Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath.

It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating things like mice or sparrows or special TV programs that we can't see.

I'm getting comfortable with West Coast style, which is more laid-back than British style.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

You have endorsements, everyone from Meg Whitman to the neocon John Negroponte and others who are all saying, you know, we're with Hillary [Clinton] now.

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

He will never let the trial surpass the strength He gives you, and at the very moment you think yourself overwhelmed by sorrow, He will lift you up and give you peace.