You don’t put pressure on me to be something I’m incapable of being. You accept me exactly how I am.

I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours

When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? . . . Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.

There is no such thing as bad people.we're all just people who sometimes do bad things.

I'm not capable of being casual with you, Lily.

And sometimes when I feel that much emotion, something inside of me just snaps.

And when you love someone, seeing them sad also makes you sad.

Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?

This isn't my excuse, this is my reality.

Don’ttempt the scorpion if you don’t want toget stung.

She never imagined that at twenty years old she'd already be a widow in black. On the bright side, she was no longer married to Dario, but her future still looked grim.

The rich spend their life living

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality.

My backpack has seven or eight DVDs in it and four or five of them have been there three months and I'm desperate to get to them.

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us

There are movies I've made that I think no celebrations are in order.

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.