I've been in love with my best friend and not been able to tell that person.

I like to think of characters in relation to other cinematic characters.

Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It's shockingly hard.

I can't be the only person that's like, "Why am I in love with this guy just because he makes me feel bad?" I can't be the only person in the world who's had that feeling.

I've really carelessly gotten out of relationships that were incredibly destructive instead of being honest.

I've slept with men that are unavailable, I've fallen in love with people I don't know.

When it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are.

Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

I want people to understand and recognize that when it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are. Everyone needs love. We need it like air or water. We just don't know how to get it.

Prayer illuminate the path.

So he was frustrated with her. Most people rolled their eyes when they got frustrated. Alaric made dolphins do ballet.

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

I don't think I'm a star or a celebrity or any thing like that.

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

It is possible to be solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd, and it is possible for one who is solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts.

Maybe I don't know what love is, but it isn't this.

When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?