So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.

So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

So I'm in love. That crazy, forget to eat, float around in a daze, talk on the phone all night and bounce out of bed every morning hoping to see him kind of love.

We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.

I think the birds in the area are dying laughing watching me try not to crash.

Time passes. That's the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on.

Writers have superpowers.

Haven't you guessed by now? I say, my heart hammering. My home is you.

I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming charges off to rescue some other chick.

Have you ever been to a place you're supposed to love, but all you can think about is home?

From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.

The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.

An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.

I'm for sure a workaholic. I'm a complete control freak and I take on way too many projects.

Simplicity is the strength of the film. It is an emotion-packed film with simple things knitted together beautifully.

It is important to rise above rationalizations and make the best choices.

<...> God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly. <...&gt.

I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.

I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.