My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.

I've always laughed at the term "female director" or even "black director." A director's a director.

I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

My sister is an ER doctor and my brother is a teacher.

All you 'Twilight' fans, can't thank you really enough for being so supportive. You're real cool people.

I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.

Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a "Gilmore Girls" episode, and I thought I was right for it.

Nothing I do is salacious or provocative or shocking for the sake of that.

Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience.

I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'

Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people’s traumatised memories

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.

The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

I have nothing against women. Some of my best wives were women.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.