I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.

You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world." You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.

I thought, "If I can make you feel what it's like for that first super-passionate love, other people might like that too," and, of course, they did.

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape.

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.

Love is always reminding me that there is something else left to do

You must not love yourself. I’ll tell you, mademoiselle … your life belongs to you. Only a matter of treating your life a little better and maybe life would treat you better in return.

If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

The key to finding your remarkability is to think about what makes you surprising, interesting, or novel.

I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.

The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.

My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.