Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.

Just love as you breathe.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

I always said I wanted to be the best at what I could do. I feel like I can improve.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

I always credit; I never just steal something. I'm very much a product of everything that I've read and seen and heard or listened to.

Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being.

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.