When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

May you have the courage, confidence and commitment to achieve your goals.

May feel like you're falling', Tabby, but remember, I'm at the bottom ready to catch you.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

Cancer research is a growth industry.

When you hear that your neighbor or friend has reproached you in your absence or presence, then show love and praise him.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later.

When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.

Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

My job, challenges, and simple things like waking up, going to my patio, and seeing that an hibiscus or a camellia opened during the night. It just makes me happy.