I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I like things that look like mistakes.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel.

Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.