Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

When you love something, it never goes away.

For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.

I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.

I like birthdays. Every time someone is born, that's just like bringing more cake into the world.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

I don't eat any toxic chemicals, and I eat organic as often as possible.

I think the relationship between the USA and Russia is too important. And it's too important to not find a way to move forward.

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