All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

I can't imagine being invested in someone else's script.

As a woman filmmaker it's pretty important that you have some basis of confidence that you're coming from, because, as I got closer to LA, there's less and less women. There's less and less mirrors for who you are.

Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to say how to love. I wouldn't force her. I wouldn't have to. She would want me. We would be in love. What do you know. You don't know anything. Call me when you've cured AIDS, give me a ring then and I'll listen.

There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.