In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.

You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I don’t do fractions.

You can't hate your best friend for taking opportunities he'd been given. That would be the worst sort of hate, wouldn't it? Because it would mean you hate yourself, too.

How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep

I am honored and lucky to be one of the first films funded by Gamechanger Films, a consortium of investors who finance movies directed by women.

Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused in another star.