I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is released and allowed to do its job. If it is a bad one, it is always fighting to get out.

Happiness requires the ultimate sacrifice: to give up one's unhappiness.

The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

I think it's more interesting if you go all the way with the world you have, and really look at it, and push it to an even more extreme extreme.

I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.

Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.

Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And golden locks in breezy play, Half teasing and half tender, to repeat Her song of May.