Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.

When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity.

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.