Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

We are the breakers of our own hearts

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

But remember, Kacey has a temper and she's crazy protective of you so if you need bail money, let me know.

Men don’t think, high and low-alike, they take what a woman does for them for granted.

Acceptance and validation are the fuels of the future.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

How does somebody know what they want if they haven't even seen it?

The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.

A broken promise is not a lie.

What have I to forgive and whom?

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

I'm not making films just to be bold.