Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.

I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things.

Personally, I do movies the way I cook. I put in what I like, in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.

Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along.

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

Of course I'm out of my mind. It's dark and scary in there.

Success dwells in a neighbourhood that can only be explored through failure, and it is through perfect knowledge of that neighbourhood that we gain perfect knowledge of her address

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.

I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance. Could you just lay some lard in my belly?

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.