People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.

It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better by far to get paid.

Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.

If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle.

Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

A vet! I started laughing weakly and had to sit on the edge of the tub. A vet. Wait till they found out how appropriate that was.

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.