Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I like things that look like mistakes.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

Cool people are only cool for the first thirty minutes of knowing them. After that, they just become annoying.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

I committed mistakes many times, fall short, tempted and diverted but able to reconfigure my direction because of God's loving mercy.

My Illusionist, will you take me into a world filled with timeless magic?

Bears don't live on Park Avenue.

Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

Frank once slipped something into the pocket of a luggage handler at the airport and said: "Have a drink on me." The luggage handler later found out it was a tea bag.

The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.