The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Empowered girls will be the women that change this world.

Make a real not alibis

Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.

Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.

I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.