The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

He wanted his old life back instead of this new hell on earth that he had created for himself.

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do.

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

You know, I started out really hot out of the box. Then I've definitely had and up-and-down career. And when things started cooling off again, it frustrated me.