You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.

I've said all that I've had to say.

If there were more women heads of state in the world, the world would be more peaceful and better focused on the improvement of the overall quality of life and welfare.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” “Elton John?” “Close. Ernest Hemingway. In his own way, sort of the rock star of his time.

The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.

Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.

He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face.