Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

It's not my fault that people are perverts.

Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it

You're a beautiful and wonderful and sensual and strong golden fawn, she says, followed by That was supposed to say "my best friend, " but my phone...

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It all has to be there.

Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.

The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.