I have created the life that I live... therefore I can create the life that I want.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

The key to the success of any producer is to have a great team around.

On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

I'm really a one-man band.

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.

I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.

It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.

I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.

The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.

Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.

Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with.

Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph.