Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.

The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.

Don't you get it? It's the end of the world! That's exactly when you fall in love. When else?

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

Modern responses to Cinderella's predicament are interesting. If you're not careful, you'll think, "Well, she's just a big wimp. She should fight for her rights. She should call the government."

I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.

I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

Little people make tall claims. As being this-that avatar or messiah. Some even say they're God. Well, if they are, I'm their grand-pop.

But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.

I think you feel like, unless you're damagedyou're not deep enough or mysterious enoughor complicated enough to ever be appreciated by another.And that is deeply untrue.

Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure on the Prairies a cause in Ontario a business in Quebec a religion in the Maritimes a disease.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

I never want to know the range of my voice. It has to be impulsive, and I don't want to kill the mystery.

Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.

A good turn at need,At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

I'd be the first one to tell you that I would like to think that I had called timeout before that. I can't imagine that I did not. I can't tell you that I did, and that's my issue.