I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

Love is an angel disguised as lust.

I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.