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

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.

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

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

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.

Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.

Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please! Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.