As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and ….

I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I'd like to be great. I want to reach for greatness..

Americans want to go to heaven without dying..

I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation..

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted..

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true..

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you a….

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end..

I want you to be nice...until it's time to not be nice..

And on the seventh day, god stepped back and said and said, "This is my creation, perfect in every way... oh, dammit I left all this pot all over the….

Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that - because I wasn't prepar….

George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to..

I change every day. I'm still changing..

You don't really think The Terminator exists, but you want him to exist..

But if that's what you want to be, that's what you will be - as long as you study..

I'm not saying I'm glad it happened. Not exactly. But I'm not sorry to be the person I am today, and to have the life I have now. Even though it's no….

There's this phase in the middle of the process where there's still the potential that this will be great, but it's not a blank sheet of paper anymor….

Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to….

Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) ….

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business..

I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things..