I guess since the groin is the center of a guy's world, he rarely guesses it isn't the center of yours.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart.

I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.

You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.