I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

My inner waters are healthy, balanced, and full of bliss for all time.

No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

Never judge anyone by the choices they've made, because you never know they might have selected the best option out of two bad choices.

When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.

What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.

Horses are like giant possums that you can ride and they stare at you and have terrifying boners

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.

In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.