When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

Some people handle sweets better.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

I always find that when I do something that I like, from my heart, then it works.

I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

I'm a benevolent dictator.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

He is a good kisser. I can definitely vouch for that.

I'm Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration...I can do aerobics in heels.

I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.

If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight

But not like this: not with the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad...recycled." "Carter Kane, Chapter 41

As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.

Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.