When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

Music stops you from thinking.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Keep on dreaming. Keep on believing. It is free. And it is a choice.

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.

I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.

I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.

I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.