The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a state.

Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.

I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part.

We have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us.

We're the highest taxed in the world, we're the highest taxed country right now, and it's not even close.

We all have competitive relationships with our siblings.

Turning someone away who wants to come near you, just because of your pride is also a form of mistake.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.