The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.

When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

I don't come from a privileged background.

There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema.

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

I'm bald, blind and pale. I'm like a gigantic recessive gene.

The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.

Flame is very near to smoke.