I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end.

Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

I'm weirdly flexible, so when I dance, I dance like a 17-year-old girl.

I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.

I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.

I would like to think there is a reason and a choice behind everything.

You've got to stop going back and forth. You've got to make up your mind.

I don't know how to describe my sense of humor.

The moment that you start to read a script, you're watching the movie in your mind, and that's the one moment that you have. Then, you go off to make the movie and you become so lost in it.

I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.

I never really want to repeat myself, obviously, but even if I do, it's because it is a choice.

I did have a friend, ' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you, ' the Wally replied.

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else.

I made a commitment to myself: that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference... It has to move people.

Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?