I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

Netflix is something I watch.

I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.

I am attracted to the dark side of life!

Enjoy it while it lasts.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

She cracked a smile. "So what's your poison" He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. "Life." "Ah, " she said ruefully. "That'll kill you.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

If you break a discipline once, the next transgression becomes much easier.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that.

You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love.

I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.