If you're a working mom, you're still expected to be a super-mom at home, buy organic food, put dinner on the table every night, and do all the research into preschools. It's really hard.

Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.

There's something really nice about missing the person you're with. To have someone be apart enough to force independence and to also look forward to seeing that person.

My directing is really weird. Everything is based on whether it's working or not. I don't try to fix something if it's not working, I'll just change it.

In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes.

I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.

Most of my horror inspiration is really older stuff and really new stuff.

The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.

I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.

I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.

My relationship with my wife is fraught with all of the problems that any couples face, but there is a sense of humor that we have about it and a real desire to want to make it better.

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.Focus on your character, not your reputation.Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

art is never finished, only abandoned

I want them to have a desirable experience in whatever way that may manifest itself in each person.

If a product is more expensive than another one and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it. We're in a very sharp competitive market.

The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.

Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that.

Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .

I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.