"I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself."

“There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.”

“For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to wonder if this was a trend and if other people were doing the same thing. That's what happens when you suddenly have a critical perspective on your own behavior.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.428, Ballantine Books

“After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got turned on to the blues. I realized how important it was to our music in England at the time. Everyone was into the blues. Then you start looking at the different kinds of blues, and you follow the journey backwards from Chicago to earlier times back down to the Delta to the Memphis Blues.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.”

“I think that everyone can change if the right person comes along, and I think that every girl wants to be the right person”

“Shoot first and ask questions not at all”

“It's tough to know the value of water until it's gone.”