Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.

Abbey relaxed, grateful not only that someone had thought to throw a party for her, but that she had been able to escape attending.

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort.

As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

I'm not the type of person to act one way in front of the camera and another when it's off. What you see is what you get.