If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about.

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.