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 an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

I should have told you the minute I saw you that you look beautiful. I do love the way you look tonight.

I'm not a morning person.

If I was any happier, you'd think I was on crack.

The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.

Another person tattooed my face on their calf. When they tense, the face moves! That is messed up.

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.

We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here.