Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Confidence is everything in this business.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

Look for magic in daily routine.

The most thankful person is the most fully human.

Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

That's America, competition.

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth.

Never become an artist if you can't learn to draw.

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.