That was the action figure I was playing with. I grew up having this fantasy of being a superhero, being Princess Power.

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

A domesticated man makes my lady parts beep!

As a teenager and even still now being 21, it's always love questions - it's always so confusing.

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.

If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.

I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear.

The adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live.

In my world, the wronger something feels, the righter it is.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.