I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

I’m just happy to have experienced life

I'm trusting everyone around me who seems to be confident and happy with what we're up to.

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

Music is definitely my mood master. It's a must have for me on set, and in my life to inspire and motivate me.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

The angels had guitars before they had wings.

The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.