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

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.

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.

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.

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

[In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer...

Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.

I’m not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.

I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.