I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

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.

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

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.

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live, ' and that is so cool.

If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.

Doing Much Ado was such a special thing because I knew everybody involved. With people you hadn't worked with before, you would watch them on shows and want to work with them.

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

You are always connected to Source. Wherever you are, wherever you go, you are always connected to Divine Wisdom, Divine Intelligence, and Divine Love.

The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

I am coming back to that which has most affected me. I'm coming back to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.