Large-budget movies start to lose focus on the story and the actors, and it becomes purely about the visual, or CGI, or framing with the cranes, or whatever it may be.

I dont like quotes. You can quote me on that.

I make character judgements based on whether people like animals. Worship Satan, I'll still give you a chance. Hate dogs, we ain't friends.

Sometimes people tell me I'm a good guy. Thank God, I'd probably be a terrible woman

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.

I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.

One of my favorite movies of all time is Fargo.

I go crazy if I'm not working. I find it harder to have down time. I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be working on this job otherwise I go insane.

On film, it's really nice to see that transformation from the beginning, reading the script, to know where he starts and where he ends, and be able to plan for that.

I traveled to Berlin promoting something a few years back, and Berlin is absolutely my favorite city I've ever been to. I want desperately to film something there.

We must all raise war against ignorance.

Everyone had a story behind them, a past richer than she had imagined.

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.

We are here for a reason. We all have a gift or gifts to share.

As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.

Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.