I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

When you love something, it never goes away.

For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

You must dream or have a vision about your calling. This vision will help you take action

If one keeps on adapting, their contribution will be limited. Theycan only imitate but never create.

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work.

You never know how great a kiss can feel, when you're stopped at the top of a Ferris wheel.

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

The student will try to defy the master. Always.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it." (divergent pg.138)