The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I like things that look like mistakes.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

The one who finds contentment is truly rich.

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

The current market ecosystem is not sustainable, and significant changes are coming one way or another.

More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.

Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'

Industry is the root of all ugliness.

Los Angeles is a very transient town. It's the only place I know where you can actually rent a dog.

God loves us extravagantly, ridiculously, without limit or condition.

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.