Everybody's a specialist.

We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.

I'll marry you if you admit that respect, admiration, and trust equals love.

There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.

I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.

TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.

This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still prefer to have my hands on film when I'm editing.

Perhaps I'm just optimistic.

More and more, even with a measure of success, I'm not sure what it is people are seeing when they see a movie I've made.

All the discoveries seem to be discoveries of means.

I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.

I do not run from beauty, my own or anyone else's. If it is a gift, I claim it and I use it. And if it is a curse, well...I claim it and use it." Victoria da Vinci

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.

The writer is the midwife of understanding.

The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.

I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

Yeah, I treat all my heroines like children now. I pick them up, I cuddle them, I call them baby.

To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.

She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.

All the green-screen stuff - all the special effects stuff - I shot right there in my house, in the basement in my theater room.