I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

There are many ways to roll with the punches. Still, it’s probably best to avoid people who punch you.

No tiredness can destroy hope like death can, as the absolute fatigue of life.

Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.

Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. And for them to be able to provide nuclear technology to non-state actors, that's unacceptable.

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.

I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.

Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two without a run or a bike ride or something, I start to get kind of itchy and antsy.

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

Be yourself and the right people will love you.