I want to live in Paris for a couple of years. I'm dying to do the Josephine Baker story. I really want to be there and do it. It's certainly my intention to do it.

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.

Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.

...as we mature, we begin to realize that life in the Box remains the same, with few deviations from this norm.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.

Photography is space, light, texture, of course, but the really important element is time - that nanosecond when the image organizes itself on the ground glass.

I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.