Running provides an outlet for my mind to relax and my peace to be still.

I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.

I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Love is the easiest way of evangelism

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an unspoken cosmic rule.

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.