I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet,' even in the competitive movie business.

We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

Some people handle sweets better.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

I always find that when I do something that I like, from my heart, then it works.

I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

I'm a benevolent dictator.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

In what life can I trust anything out of your mouth ever again?

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch.

There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know

Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

Bacon. Crispy. Salty. I could just eat a mountain of bacon for breakfast; it's so delicious.