Hollywood always likes to create a star.

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.

What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.

I'd rather go for Scorsese and De Niro. I just think he was so much better.

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work. It's just how do you get it seen?

My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.

If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.

Don’t underestimate the importance of reading and understanding God’s Word.

The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

It was a great honor to be called a mo-fo by Sam Jackson.

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.