I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City.

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.

I only grow hair in places that men like.

I don't even know how to swim!

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.

There are two kinds of jackets - reversible, and reversible but it's hard to zipper up and it looks really stupid.

You learn from mistakes.

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale.

Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.

Teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.

I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.