As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.

I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like.

If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?

It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!

I just like short hair on women; I think its cool.

I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years.

I'm surrounded by people who care about me and love me. I have a great job. I have wonderful roommates who take care of me. I have a family who adores me.

Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.

There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.

It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.

The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

Trolls look for reasons to hate but really what they are mad at is the fact they are not included in anything ever.

Failure isn't final until you quit!!

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.