As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?

I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.

Peace of being makes the soul prosper.

You cannot become something new without putting in the appropriate effort, can you? Just as a seed cannot grow into an ear of corn without the appropriate time, sunlight, water, and care.

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.

It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

I will fight you endlessly if I think you're wrong but I will never judge you.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.