I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world.

There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.

We all grow into the beautiful person that we’re supposed to be, some earlier, some later.

I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.

Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It's something that should be had on a daily basis.

Your imperfections are what make you beautiful.

Stop being scared of the unknown, because anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened. The unknown, we can't do anything about.

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be.

The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known, " but, of course, you couldn't have known.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

And no kinds of love are better than others

So, we wait until tomorrow night, and when you say the word, I cross over and haul you both out. Right? That's it?" "With any luck, yes." Luck? We were depending on luck? Nash is so screwed.

I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, or June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker.