What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

Self-love knows no impediment.

My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.

Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

It would be a foetus of monarchy!

Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . . in this sense, [they] are part of the battle along the fluid front of the cold war.

What is it you want your audience to see? Who is your audience? What does surface signify? Does it carry meaning? Do you fully understand and know what you are doing? WHY are you using encaustic?

Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

I love jewellery, but it's something I go through stages with. I have my go-to pieces that I will bring out and wear for weeks at a time.

I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!