I've definitely gotten to work with female directors, and I feel lucky because of that. I just feel like more voices should be represented.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.

...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

When you lift up others, you rise up together.

...and when he dies, cut him out in little stars, and the face of heaven will be so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no heed to the garish sun.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.

You are more important than your problems.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.