I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

I give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

I'm more embarrassed about some of the films that I've been in than I am about Playboy. Playboy I'm actually quite proud of.

I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal.

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

As you have seen, I am being viciously attacked with lies and smears.

When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole.

Every woman wants and needs different things. It's always best when you're honest and you speak up. It's hard to read minds.

I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.

There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.

I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.