#film

"Don't just write a strong female protagonist. Be one."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

"The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."

"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."

"When everything gets answered, it's fake."

"Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen; you just had to feel something."

"The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be."

"Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??"

"Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience."

"Love is alive when there's music in your heart."

"Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love."

"One day, your light will silence the darkness, and you will be surrounded by the beauty within."

"Be the energy you want others to absorb."

"In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God."

"Let me just pause a minute and drink in this moment. And if you film it, I’ll be able to get free refills for life."

"I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over."

"The best writing speaks when the heart whispers."

"Believe so brightly that everyone sees the beauty in believing."

"Life is magic."

"Whatever you do, let it be lovely."