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

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.

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.'

You can speak truth to power, . . . but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own insecurity.""The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel

Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.

I hate Danny Kaye movies.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.

Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them.

Touching souls... The best feeling in the world.

You get a little stir crazy during the week.

I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver.

I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.