I was never a fanatical movie person.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

You don’t need money to be kind, but you cannot be kind without a heart.

Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.

Nowadays when you buy music its like you're donating to that cause, because you most likely could hear it in some capacity for free.

Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.

I would definitely love to be a parent.

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.