Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'

Greta abides by the reasonable philosophy that there is nothing in the universe more boring than someone else's dreams.

Beware the man of a single book.

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

Valentines Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think its more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it, do not date that person again. And if you like it, there may not be a second date.

I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists