I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

When she tells you her problems she is not moaning, she trusts you.

Love - a grave mental disease.

I love chips and salsa. Guacamole.

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.

If you feel like you can't actually do the right thing and you're headed off into the field of justice, maybe there's no point in going into it.

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

When something works for you or another brand, ask yourself, 'Why?' Then don't copy it but think about what you can do that's unique to you and better.

Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.

The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.