Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

Nature is a series of murders.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

It seems like there'd be no Donald Trump without the internet, first of all. He's a tweeter, which is basically just a bullhorn.

I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted.

I love British female directors lately.

I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.

I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!

If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues.

You forgive them and move on.

Bad moments don't last forever, things do get better.

If a man has money it is usually a sign too that he knows how to take care of it don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.

You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)

I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

It is not easy to compete when you have LD, but it is possible.

I found a girl, fell in love, she had a baby, and i fell in love again.