I never really make a film unless I feel like it's going to be personal and intimate, but also relevant to the audience.

I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

Engage your fans and turn your fans into your community. Realize that we all have failures and can turn those failures into successes through tenacity and through being open to changing.

Time does not create changes, wisdom does. Your wisdom decides the quality of your decisions.

What a precious privilege to pray?

You two have just reached the level of annoyingly cute.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

Out of the formless the forms appear.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.