I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

Loving what you do is the secret to everything.

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.

Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be with you. God is great.

We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.

The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'

We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.

His was a quiet but persistent charisma.

He growled low in his throat. “I don’t think I can do this the nice way, Jessica.

He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

Definitely, I'm always nice. Sometimes I wish I could be naughty, I'm just a little too boring.