The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I teach what compels us to question our reality

Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

I have made "start, grow and stay" a big part of my administration.

Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.

The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that's the way I need Jesus.

Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.

Contrast is the dramatist's method.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

Two people can work on a problem better than one