I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.

Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

There are no speed limits on the road to love

Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be" tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it.

Too many people have a wonderful dream and just talk about it rather than do something about it.

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

I've come to really believe that I have something to offer as a filmmaker, that goes beyond what I had to offer as an actress and maybe this is what I'm meant to do.

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!