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I always wanted to direct stories that are big scale and fantastical worlds.

American rock was, and still is to some extent, a closed shop. REO Speedwagon, Toto, Boston, Foreigner all those bands, and I wouldn't be able to tell which from which.

My favorite would be 'Love to Love You' because from zero, I went to Number One. I don't think it's the best song - the best one is probably between 'Flashdance' and 'Take My Breath Away.'

I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.

New Yorkers are smart.

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

Being world's champion is what I set out in life to do. I'm one of the few people on earth that can say they completed, in every aspect, what they wanted to do with their life.

I think my worst habit is struggling with technology, even though I know how this stuff works, I need to bring conscious thought into how I use.

Social work and politics never go together although the intention behind politics is social work.

I'm a can-do girl.

I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think...

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.

I just want to keep fighting and showing off my skills.

I don't really care what anybody has to say about me.

By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.

You have to play to your strengths, and my strength is the amount of content I create.

I was talking to Rupert Murdoch the other day at a lunch, and he said, 'Maybe I'll live to 100'. He actually thinks he will live to 100!

A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable...

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

Slow and quiet is way more difficult than hard and fast, any day of the week. So for me that's always a little more interesting. Being a songwriter myself and a fan of songwriters, I love getting a...

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

I am not the Marquis de Sade.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.

If I had a horse of my own that I loved and fed and knew me, it would be amazing.

I don't worry about gaining weight. I'm fortunate in that I've never had to worry about that. Some people eat when they are stressed. I don't eat enough.

I did 'Lonely Hearts' with John Travolta and James Gandolfini. Talk about getting over your fears. These guys were amazing! Also, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is one of my favorites. We've made 3 films together....

One thing I've learned is when you find a best friend in this life, you better hang on.

There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way...

I got introduced to Western music and it inspired me. One of my favourite bands is Pink Floyd.