I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

I'm not going to be remotely funny.

Your desire to make art -- beautiful or meaningful or emotive art -- is integral to your sense of who you are.

…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

I feel like a three-dimensional girl in a two-dimensional world.

Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.

If someone says that I'm the best at anything, I always just agree with them. I'm certainly not gonna argue.

You give yourself permission to be the person you want to be, the artist you want to be, no matter what your circumstances!

Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.