When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

We don't live. We're miming in the choir.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are.

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

The one who never repents shall be the one who never sleeps.

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

God does not pay at the end of every day, but in the end He pays.

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

9/11 woke us up, a nuclear 9/11 could shut us down.

When I'm a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they'll believe me because they weren't listening to me.

Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.

I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not.

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

When they say take from my body, I think I'll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they're all down stairs.