When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle.

The wolves are never meant to be anything other than defending. They're not meant to be aggressors.

Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.

If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.

Always yearn to be an instrument for the Kingdom

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.

Scent is very important. Strong fragrances suit some men, while citrus types suit others. I like my men to smell fresh and woody, but also like a man.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other.

You have to stay true to yourself and where youre coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.

Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.

Space for the sunflower, bright with yellow glow, To court the sky.