Women can do anything, and I want to see that. I want them to make more movies for girls, and just for girls. I want studios to start doing that.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

Maybe all you need to pull you back form the ledge is to know someone would miss you if you fell.

Creativity is as much about order against freedom

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

As long as I live and breathe, I attack

Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.

We have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

Strong people have strong weaknesses.