I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6.

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.

There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

If you run out on Nellie, what will you say when you meet God?"George swore, laughed, shook his head. "I'll say 'Just send me on to hell. That's where all my friends are, anyway.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.

Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.