Solitude is strength

He knew that the disdain for death and crazy courage of youngsters stemmed from a lack of imagination.

You can speak truth to power, . . . but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own insecurity.""The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel

The desires you aspire to need strong chains of intent.

Your subconscious mind is always listening to and believing in everything you repeatedly say about yourself. So try not to become your own enemy of progress.

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

I look at my reflection in the mirror and I see a girl who desperately wants to forgive a boy, but not without a hell of a lot of grovelling first.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.