independence Quotes

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it.

My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.