Modern responses to Cinderella's predicament are interesting. If you're not careful, you'll think, "Well, she's just a big wimp. She should fight for her rights. She should call the government."

The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.

Don't you get it? It's the end of the world! That's exactly when you fall in love. When else?

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.

I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.

The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.

Often with film, I find that you're just really getting to know a person. They're just starting to sink in, and then you wrap the film.

Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.