I'm still a great movie fan, and I guess that's the answer to your question.

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.

One can memorize all words written about Christ but without a heart connection to Him, one does not know Him, and they will not be saved by Him.

Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.

If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

My theory is that the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters.

Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.

in the context of loss, each child is an only to her or his parents. Human relationships do not fill in for, do not substitute for, do not replace each other.

In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.