If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

Making a movie is casting a spell.

Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

I've made several films that haven't been shown.

Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

Three tips to stay in your strength zone. 1. Know your top five strengths.2. Align with them.3. Practice gratitude.

I just like short hair on women I think it's cool.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

the distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.

Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.

My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her.

The world is kept alive only by heretics.