Integrity is my stock in trade.
I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.
If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.
I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific.
I do think it's true that anytime somebody comes to you and says, "I'd like to be in your film," it's never good to dismiss them or make fun of them, because if they're passionate and driven enough, they very well might find a way to be in your film.
If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.
My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.
He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one.