I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.

Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people.

That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other.

My only thought was to keep him away from Annabeth.

Kissing's a lot like laughing. If the joke's funny, it doesn't matter how long it's been since you last heard one.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.

I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can.

The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully.