Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.
Truth is cold and hard but it is also the first step on the path to hope and salvation.
It's only men that I strip and flip. My companies I hold long and close to my heart.
I think women need to be kinder to other women. I think once we realize that, shoulder to shoulder, walking in the same direction, we're the greatest force of nature…our destiny can change.
Don't do it for the money. Follow the path to do what makes your heartbeat faster. Follow your passion.
If we don't become a country that makes things again, we won't have enough jobs for our people.
Guy Ritchie is the worst screenwriter in the world, but, to be fair, he is not the worst director. He is only the worst director of the people who actually get to make movies. As we speak, there are human beings walking the Earth -- perhaps as many as a half dozen of them -- with less directorial talent, but they've been safely diverted into other activities.
[On leaving the U. S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound and thought-bound in this land of dollars and cents.
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.