We started out as far to the left as we could.

The big companies are like, It's so good but we don't know how to market it.

You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

Tough love - I'm kind of weary of that. I don't think it's so effective.

You definitely want to do the little films. They're always going to be harder, but you don't do them to make money. You do them so you can see what you can make with the research that you have.

I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.

The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.

I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.

The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.

We started out as far to the left as we could.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen.

We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character.

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?

I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school.

It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.

I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day.

High school you dont want to go back and do it over again.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you're consistent, you will succeed.

I feel for Veronica Mars so much when I'm watching at home. It is a wonderful story. The writing is consistently funny, biting, charming, heart-wrenching, etc. I also like the look of it. The cinematography - different from any other show.

I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness, it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.

The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

What drew me to this job is that Univision is a brand unlike any other in all of media. Univision has the highest brand affinity of any brand, and that includes Microsoft and Apple and some of the iconic brands in all of industry.

I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.

Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.

I'm very serious about what I write and who I allow to produce the music, because I want to make sure it's a true album, and not just something pushed out there to create hype and more fame for myself.

The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep.

I can't see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but there's no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.