Everybody can justify their actions. We all think that we're doing things for reasons that are meaningful to us. Maybe not to other people, but to us.

I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I'd love to be old and gray and still be working in this [horror] genre.

I feel like Travis [Stevens] is just a Midas touch producer. Seemingly everything he touches turns to gold lately, so that was quite exciting looking at that prospect.

I watch the energy between the actors. That's the most thrilling and interesting thing to me about watching a movie, what the actors are doing.

I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point... and wait.

As I've matured, the roles are a bit more layered and representative of where I am today as an older person with more responsibilities, perspective and hopefully not too many regrets.

The people I love the most in the film industry are the writers. And I think they're the people who are most vulnerable and are really open to new ideas. They're the originators, the creators.

When I work with filmmakers today, I'm really an advocate for the women's roles that I see, to make them as layered and as deep as possible. I think many of them are underwritten.

When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I'd like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I'm working with.

Superhero roles seem to be popular. I'd like to see more female superheroes. How about a grandmother superhero? I'd pay good money to see that.

Localisation stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.

The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it

History: a collection of epitaphs.

When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked about, that cannot be gotten at with shallow media.

Much like a patchwork quilt, inspiration that stirs and motivates me is made of many things.

I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)