Rebecca Quotes

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.

I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don’t take responsibility.

We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.

Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me. It makes me sweat, I have to hide behind a cushion.

I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.

I'm just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I've got my dad's body. Not all of it, thank God.

Without question, dying on 'Lost' was the best thing I have ever done in my entire career.

It's rare to work on a series without a writer. If you have a question about a line, then phone calls have to be made.

Sometimes when you walk onto a set, there are very clear delineations. The crew don't talk to the actors and I hate all that. Everyone is the same to me and I always treat everyone in the same way.

For people to come to you and say, 'Would you like to be a part of our show?' after years of 'Please tell me I'm good enough'... I can't tell you how wonderful it feels.

When I got 'Lost,' I was about to not be able to live, so it was a fall-to-the-knees, burst-into-tears, 'I'm saved by this great role' moment.

When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.

The danger with playing someone tough is that the character can become two-dimensional and mean and nobody likes her.

Work should never make me weary If I'm really meant to do it, But it soon becomes exhausting If it's greed that drives me to it.

Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.

My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something.

I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

I have a great drive to make things and sometimes I forget to slow down a little.

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

The script is the musical score, and everyone has to play off that score. Even I have to interpret it. The producers are there to eliminate obstacles to that interpretation.

I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it.

As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book.

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

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

At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction.

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.

I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

There's that statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, I think flying around in Google Earth is worth a million words.

I feel very fortunate to have been sort of a tiny instigator, using technology for good.