I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center.

You can't go down anybody else's [road]. It's your dream; it's your life. You don't have to be told by other people what to make of yourself. You decide.

I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine.

It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and starved all the fears and tasted all the dreams she kept coiled beneath her bones.

I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

You didn't choose God. He chose you. When you stop feeling hurt by everyone and plotting your comeback, he has some very important things he wants you to accomplish with your life.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.

I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

As long as it is hot, wet and goes down the right way, its fine with me.