She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or by duplication

Creativity is leading the life king-size, despite you being a pauper!

Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.

I'm still finding my way, and I made a lot of mistakes.

My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected

Going through a rough break-up? Nothing a little dance party with friends can't ease.