I only want to write. I don't care about directing really. I've tried it and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.

Im afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

The people who present themselves as normal and nice and good are often the scariest monsters in the world.

When you lose someone you love, they never really leave you. They just move into a special place in your heart.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.

People who are considered scary or odd or even monsters are so often the people that just need love and someone to care for them.

The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.

I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.

How could a society produce such masters and such monsters?

Seek to learn. See to learn.

I hate Jesse for leaving me behind. If he asked, I would have walked into the air with him.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality.

You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

Music has the power to unite us. It proves that by working together, we can create something truly beautiful.

I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.

I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.