If I’m feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone’s thing.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

Courage drown by horses is hard to market, and makes more wounds.

A conversation isn't a competition.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

There's a part of us that is addicted to suffering, that equates love with suffering.

SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

Just be you. I've learned the hard way and in the end, some people are just so full of hate that no matter what you say or do, they'll always have something to say.

A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn't a Christian

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

When I was younger, I didn't have any aspirations to be an actress.