“When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.”

I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

Self-plagiarism is style.

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Everything’s perverted in a different way.

I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

If I won’t be myself, who will?

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

What you are thinking now is creating your future life.

Every relationship we create is a part of a grander scheme, to help us become more aware of who we are.

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia.

Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.

Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.

Grasping for empty promises creating hazards in the dark. Leaving a mess we can’t clean up all in the name of love.

The world is created for all human beings to enjoy life. Adam did not have a tribe.

I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes – where a woman’s personality and sense of style are realized.