I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

I never really make a film unless I feel like it's going to be personal and intimate, but also relevant to the audience.

Engage your fans and turn your fans into your community. Realize that we all have failures and can turn those failures into successes through tenacity and through being open to changing.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

Literature is the expression of society.

The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.

Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.

What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.

I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.