Rebecca Quotes

Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

May you get more out of life than a cup of tea.

You either are a good director or you're not.

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.

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

I try to break a sweat every day. It doesn't always happen that way, but that's the goal.

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.

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

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.

Making people laugh is the greatest experience.

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.

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

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

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.

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.

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.

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I think life throws enough curveballs that you shouldn't make such a big deal out of everything.

I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.

Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.

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.

Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

I'm basically a computer science nerd.

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

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

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

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.