I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

He took her hand. If it were in my power, I would take you to that place from your movie, over the rainbow where dreams come true. But all I can offer is myself, and I'm not going anywhere.

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

Any simple but delicious dish that celebrates the season and locality is what I want to be known for.

Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.

I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.