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.

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.

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

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.'

It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.

You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me isyour absence, Alaric

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

All would live long, but none would be old.

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

I don't think some of the players understand what the people are about. The people are coming out to show you their appreciation of the game, and the player that you are.

C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts.

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.