Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

I can only motivate if you ALLOW me to motivate.

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand.They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

Perhaps there is a beast...maybe it's only us.

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.