Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

It's safe to tell us stuff, okay?" This means it's not safe to tell them anything.

Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.

You can't have freedom of religion with a religion that hates freedom!

A divine power delivers us from every danger.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

Maybe you can't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.

It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.

A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.

Believe in the importance of your art.

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.