That seems to me the greatest American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

Forgiving is an ability that can be trained. When you see the results, it´s like a drug.

If a tree bears sweet fruit, birds have many reasons to visit it.

If you don't stop fear, fear will stop you. Somebody's gotta stop. My advice? Don't let it be you. Whatever IT is. Do IT afraid

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else.