I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Once bitten, twice shy, thrice shame on me!

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.

I spit honey out of my mouth: nothing is second-best after the sweet of Eros.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

Sometimes God teaches us how to solve our problems. Sometimes God teaches us how to face our problems

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

In the simplest sense, the key to the performance of any traditional commercial bank ... is the profitability of the loans it makes.