Some scripts are pretty sparse.

I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6.

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.

There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

We're not into music. We're into chaos.

You don't have to know someone your whole life to know them. Not really. Lonely is the same everywhere.

Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.

Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.