Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.

I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.

My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor that you could to-day.

When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.

Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way.

Things might not get better but they might not get worse. There's something sort of beautiful about that.

Talent is what drives technology companies.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

I'm really not tailored for responsibility.

You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.