I can't go off all crazy like that and reward someone a ton of money.
It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.
I love being a mother. . . I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.
Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.
Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.
And then Mircea finally let me down, only to get his hands inside the coat and push me against the wall. "I'm dirty," I protested. He waggled his eyebrows. "Promise?" "Mircea!" I laughed in spite of myself.
Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.
There are two aspects to making movies: One is the feeling of wanting to push myself into stuff that I don't know how to do. Then there's the other impulse to try and earn a living. I want to be careful about not confusing those too much - not that those things can't have a healthy overlap. Plenty of people start out making work that isn't terribly commercial, and then make work that's more commercial but still good. You just want to watch out for that thing where you tell yourself that you're doing your best work when you're not.
You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.