I think I saw "Predator" when I was six. So I knew from a very young age that it wasn't real, but I just loved it.

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.

As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where I think everyone can do the job and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard enough.

Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

Most people don't go to work and beat up a 13-year-old. It's a really freaky thing.

I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.

My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'

If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

There couldn't be a resolution, because life doesn't end on a schedule. It ends in the middle, every time.

The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they're designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer.