Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

The ultimate altruism is nothing but the sacrifice of one’s self for the benefit of others. Love yourself but never forget to be altruistic to others in need.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

Blackhole doesn't crush those things in the vicinity.It miniaturises everything in different laws of physics.

You were right. I'm going to make you want things you never knew you wanted.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.

Anything's better than Gen X which is what we got. Thanks Douglas Coupland. We sound like a team of mutant vigalantees with frosted hair and chain wallets. Actually that's not completely horrible.