The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

If you think you are powerless, then you are

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.

He still smelled of limes. It made saliva come into her mouth. It made her feel that before she had been sleepy, and now she was awake.

Spreading rumours is our national past time

The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think.

I love living in London but I would like to buy a place in Dubai and spend a few months of the year out there.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!

The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.