Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.

Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

There's no escape. I'm God's only man.

Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.