I dare say you believe I'm going to die. I bet you don't believe you're going to die. You know it, but you don't believe it. Imaginatively, I think we find it impossible to believe we don't exist.

Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both veil what is to be uncovered, neither is capable of the coverup.

I don't go to the movies because they scare me. I don't like anything that is suspenseful, even pleasantly so.

I'm very moved and very excited. And it just seems to me here are houses and trees and streets that feel so different from New York. I feel very attached to London; I love it.

I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.

Once you start on an idea it proliferates in itself.

As soon as you move through the hospital doors you've removed yourself from real life. From the world we know. It's an alien world. Just enter those gates and you are in alien territory.

Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.

You’re so damn big, ” she whispered.“Why, thank you cariño, ” he said.

Behind every angry soul is a wounded child that just wanted you to love them for who they are.

Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language.

I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.

Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.