I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all.

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

I promise you that I will steal your heart and keep it in the prison of my love forever.

If I’m not around I hope you’ll remember me and together we will hold on to our favorite song.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.

No movie becomes a hit without good reviews and word-of-mouth. No agency ever became a great brand by merely saying it was great - in advertising or by any other medium.

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.