In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

Cancer is everybody's cause.

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.

You need to be able to confide in people.

I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.

What kind of a god is it that's upset by a cartoon in Danish?

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.