All you 'Twilight' fans, can't thank you really enough for being so supportive. You're real cool people.

I've always laughed at the term "female director" or even "black director." A director's a director.

I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

My sister is an ER doctor and my brother is a teacher.

I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.

Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a "Gilmore Girls" episode, and I thought I was right for it.

Nothing I do is salacious or provocative or shocking for the sake of that.

My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.

Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience.

I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'

A politician is worse than the arsonist, for he lights the fire and then vows if elected he will supply more fire trucks.

"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

The technical stuff is easy to deal with, it's just supplemental to the plight - it's not a real thing, it's just background to what we're really trying to do.

You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

Praising all alike, is praising none.

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

Every election is important and each election says it's more important than the last.