I've always laughed at the term "female director" or even "black director." A director's a director.

I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

My sister is an ER doctor and my brother is a teacher.

All you 'Twilight' fans, can't thank you really enough for being so supportive. You're real cool people.

I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.

Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a "Gilmore Girls" episode, and I thought I was right for it.

Nothing I do is salacious or provocative or shocking for the sake of that.

My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.

Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience.

I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'

You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it.

Dad literally carried me around the world with him through the early years of my life.

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

New York is like traveling without actually moving.

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.