I always want to watch something I've done, so that I know what I didn't do well.

Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

I'm weirdly flexible, so when I dance, I dance like a 17-year-old girl.

I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.

I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.

I would like to think there is a reason and a choice behind everything.

You've got to stop going back and forth. You've got to make up your mind.

I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end.

I don't know how to describe my sense of humor.

The moment that you start to read a script, you're watching the movie in your mind, and that's the one moment that you have. Then, you go off to make the movie and you become so lost in it.

I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.

Don't be afraid to be exactly as awesome as you were created to be.

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.

Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

Try not to wake up on fire.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.

the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he's going to be the president of.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.