My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.

What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

I'd rather go for Scorsese and De Niro. I just think he was so much better.

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work. It's just how do you get it seen?

If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.

Money is a servant to politicians and the country.But, if the politicians and the country become the servant of the money, the politicians has failed.

The United States is the result of an enlightened philosophy

She is increasingly of the opinion that worrying about problems doesn't help solve them, but she hasn't really found an alternative yet. Surely you can't just leave them there.

Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.

If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.

You weren't s-- then, Tiger. You ain't s-- now. You ain't never gonna be s--.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

I can't tell people how much fun it is to be a super-villain. Being a villain is cool, but being a supervillain is a different level of exciting.

In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.