I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

I like to think of characters in relation to other cinematic characters.

Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It's shockingly hard.

I can't be the only person that's like, "Why am I in love with this guy just because he makes me feel bad?" I can't be the only person in the world who's had that feeling.

I've been in love with my best friend and not been able to tell that person.

I've really carelessly gotten out of relationships that were incredibly destructive instead of being honest.

I've slept with men that are unavailable, I've fallen in love with people I don't know.

When it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are.

Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

I want people to understand and recognize that when it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are. Everyone needs love. We need it like air or water. We just don't know how to get it.

Chit impurity is due to the relative vision. When the vision becomes real (enlightened), purification of chit occurs.

Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.

I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.

It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road. You never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

Nobody would hire me for TV, not that they should.

To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.

When the end comes, dark and hungry I'll be alone, love When the end comes, black and starving I'll say good-bye, love.-from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

Ultimately, the goal of hitting is to get your mind out of the way and let your body take over - and to slow the game down