I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted.

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

Nature is a series of murders.

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

It seems like there'd be no Donald Trump without the internet, first of all. He's a tweeter, which is basically just a bullhorn.

I love British female directors lately.

I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.

I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!

Never compare your grief.You - and only youwalk your path.

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

We have to use our great people.

Girl I know it's real cause I've been around it. You only want what's real you just never found it

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.