Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

I have a short attention span.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

Negativity isn't the way to go, smile more, eat some chocolate

When you're blessed, the haters come out. When you wear God's blessings well, don't be surprised if it draws jealousy out on people.

I love every second of being a mom.

We're kinda always writing, so it's like we're always thinking about what's next, so that'd be a yes. We're always constantly wanting to get onto the next thing or the new thing.

When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce.

We are not dealing with a scientific problem. We are dealing with a political issue.

We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.