I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

All it took was a couple weeks and boom--they sucked the crazy out of you and your soul went with it.

You are the creation of your own consciousness.

Affection is invaluable. I will accept your heart as payment and change your mind.

The 8 Snippets feed hungry hearts with love, learning and laughter.

God exists. He has one wicked sense of humor, and right now he’s having a grand old time punking the planet.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

You just want to love Tim Matheson and just cuddle him. He's really - and he's gorgeous. He has much in common with [Ronald Reagan] Reagan's outward persona.

We've been living under outdated immigration rules from decades ago. They're decades and decades old.

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

I’m a big lipstick girl- I’m old school that way.