I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.

My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

I'd love to be a Bond girl. I mean, if you're going to be stereotyped, there are worse things to be stereotyped as.

I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

I think escapism is really important.

When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.

I will not go on a blind date.

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

Frankly, I don’t care what others say.

The App Store has democratized the creation of content. As a 12-year-old kid, I was able to put my application on the store. No one knows whos behind the screen so you cant tell Im a 12-year-old.

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.