I notice that I feel safer among women when I do drugs. I would never do drugs with male friends.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

I think there can be incestuous love.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous power when a child is involved.

...that heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love.

I'm a very independent woman.

If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.

Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.

Well, my head's full of questions My temp'rature's risin' fast Well, I'm lookin' for some answers But I don't know who to ask

Don't forget your own self while preaching to others.

The only answer to "Are you Beatles or Stones?" is, "I'm both."