Spike Jonze // "I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. Your ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older."
Diana Vreeland // "I do think that we all have inner energy... Frustration and fear of course are the two greatest obstacles that keep any form of energy and vitality completely paralyzed... I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand...the more you create within yourself. I also believe that energy is habit... In other words, use your energy and more energy flows and then it is very hard to stop it...as if one would ever want to!"
Tim Burton // "I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words."
David Bowie // "Never work for other people...always, always remember that the reason that you initially started working was that there was something inside yourself that you felt, that if you could manifest it in some way, you would understand more about yourself and how you co-exist with the rest of society... And the other thing I would say is that if you feel safe in the area that you're working in, you're not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you're capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth and when you don't feel that you're feet are quite touching the bottom, you're just about in the right place to do something exciting."
Jean-Luc Godard // "It's not where you take things from – it's where you take them to."
Bill Murray // "I know I'm not saving the world...but something in what I've learned how to do or the stories that I've tried to tell...they're some sort of representation of how life is or how life could be. And that gives some sort of optimism. And an optimistic attitude is a successful attitude."
Isaac Asimov // "Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life, people will take you at your own reckoning."
Stephen King // "When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time" ...It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man."
Marina Abramovic // "The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you."
William James // "Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is."
Jane Jacobs // "If I were running a school, I'd have one standing assignment that would begin in the first grade and go on all through school, every week: that each child should bring in something said by an authority...it could be by a teacher, or something they see in print, but something they don't agree with...and refute it."
Iris Apfel // "You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting."