Life is about balance. It's not about forgetting the bad times or escaping them. It's about creating enough good times to outweigh the bad.

When you fall in love with someone you treasure their quirks as much as anything else. Flaws become unique marks of character, things you'd miss if they weren't there.

Guilt is the toothache of the soul.

Shit happens. You can either stand their and complain about the smell or you can wipe your shoe and keep walking.

Feelings are not facts

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that you ain't learned nothing.

Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together almost human in its passions almost spiritual in its tenderness almost Divine in its infinity.

Women's football does have its knockers.

I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go off and make a rock opera. I think it's a very specific niche.

Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.