"Every great story seems to begin with a snake."

"Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?"

"I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre."

"Everything we do impacts someone else's life."

"I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be."

"The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."

"What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player."