As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.