'Titanic' made me want to tell stories... To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams... It came at a very troubled period of my life.

I think anything is possible to anyone who dreams, dares, works and never gives up.

I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.

A movie that is unable to elicit emotion isn't a movie.

I love women in my heart but not in my undies.

I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.

I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

When I write a film, I have already made the trailer

I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.

I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.

That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the responsibility and the gift of what it is I get the opportunity to do.

Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.

I've always loved a challenge.

Everything that is not given is lost.

My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

Once your kids are grown and you know that you're completely healthy, consider canceling your life insurance policy.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.