So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees.

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

I think the experience of feeling isolated, of not fitting in, creates the urge to explore.

You can't just sing the song and live another life.

We must be true to ourselves. And we must be true to others, whether they believe we are or not.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.

Anybody that says different is selling something.