Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.
How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.
There is no end to what can be said about the world.
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.
The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.
Every ad for every film is exactly the same.
I like audiences to crane their necks.
All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.
We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.
I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.
Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.
If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.
“They tested it. And it tested a little more poorly than ours had, ... So they then gave it back to me with -- they said, 'Now here's some things we think you should do.'”
“as long as I last and as long as people allow me to do it.”
If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.
A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.
We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
Dying was apparently a weaning process all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.