Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

Haters will unwittingly give you the inspiration you need to conquer your great obstacle of destiny if you did not give up

Reality is not what we see, reality is what we think we see.

All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.

Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I feel like every great record is like a world in itself.