There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

Her love for him was almost like a pain in itself.

My family was too precious to forget, and too rare to replace.

She looked over the colored boxes of smiling women holding plastic sticks. Why isn’t there a box showing a terrified teen?

We relegate God to our spare time—but end up never having any spare time! Jesus said, “Seek first his kingdom” [Matthew 6:33 NIV].

My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.'

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.