The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

Everybody puts importance in money on a film set.

For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!

I'm not sure when the New Media will replace the Old Media, but it will be sooner than later.

I'm always a little skeptical when I hear people promoting a film and they say it has something for everyone.

I'm grateful for people who have believed in me when others might not have.

You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.