I think that occasionally running away and crashing where people can't find you is important.
Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.
Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.
Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.
Real strength isn’t control. It’s knowing when to let go.
The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon will disappear beneath you, yet love expects you to keep walking anyway, arms outstretched, one foot after the other, on nothing more than air.
I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means.
I consider myself a student of life.
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
Many people are afraid to fail, so they don't try. They may dream, talk, and even plan, but they don't take that critical step of putting their money and their effort on the line. To succeed in business, you must take risks. Even if you fail, that's how you learn. There has never been, and will never be, an Olympic skater who didn't fall on the ice.
I'm really interested in experimental works, so the people that I admired the most was Dziga Vertov, Sergey Eisenstein, people from the '20s. Also, I loved John Ford and his westerns. The New Wave was not tender to women.