My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.

Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City.

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

I only grow hair in places that men like.

I don't even know how to swim!

Every sacred existence is history of time.

Maybe I can stalk you again sometime.” “Absolutely.

Double Indemnity is one of my all time favorites. Thats my favorite.

Actors come up and just blatantly hit on my wife in front of me and don't even look at me.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil.

If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

Every good servant does not all commands.