Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.

Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.

We cannot all be masters.

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption sooner in your poor estate, than that which is nearest your own.

You've got to keep moving, keep creating.

I've always worked really hard, and the hardest thing I've ever done is have kids!

There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.

Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.