There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.

There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films-control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.

It happens sometimes that when someone has a camera, they change; sometimes they change for the better.

When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings.

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

True love rules especially through memory.

For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

Men are my life, diamonds are my career.

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.