I measure the success of my work by the way I feel about a film before anyone else has seen it. I think I can trust myself to know when the work is good and deep and interesting and when it isn't.

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

I want young women to think about different possibilities for their lives.

I want people to consider the idea that the only way of moving forward with their lives is to revisit and confront their issues and their pasts.

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

Like dust brushed from an old painting, as we journey beneath the surface layers of life, another landscape is revealed.

Don’t let them fool you and tell you goals has to be unified before any partnership agreement. Be carefully concerned about unifying your values and principles, after that all will run smoothly.

Hem, ' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

I'm here for you in the same way that you're here for me, each person is an intricate piece of infinity.

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.

... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

There is a power within you that will free you!

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.