If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

The other thing I've been discussing with friends is: when you're born do you start at a zero, or five?

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.

...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

Je suis autant Chinois que Fran c° ais. I am as much Chinese as French.

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

I think the first villain that I ever played was on Stargate. I was this superior being that would take over a human host and believe that he was the most superior being in the universe.

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.