I'm a director and a writer, and I'm used to having my way. I'm not used to being a vessel for other people.

Don't wait for someone to enable you to make something.

Perhaps one day I will be fortunate enough to be upset over how I misunderstood I am. A girl can dream.

Creatively, editing was the most painful part of the process for me.

I think I'm incredibly self-aware to a fault.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color.

I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.

Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future.

What can I say? I've never met a cupcake I didn't want to get to know better.

Love is getting to be cynical, passion's just physical.

We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care.

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.