I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

It was a glorious illusion and she fell asleep before it ended.

In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.

It's interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.

What a hell of a league this is. Ah hit .387, .408, and .395 the last three years and Ah ain't won nothin' yet!

Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!