I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.

You have the ability to drive your brain and the capability to nab the steering wheel back any time you feel yourself veering off the road you intended to take.

I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found

Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

I never make a film with a message in mind. I'm more interested in the characters; how they are related to each other and the situation they're in.

You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.

Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.

George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to each other. Hopefully one day.