That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

The other thing I've been discussing with friends is: when you're born do you start at a zero, or five?

Sell the results, not the nuts and bolts.

We can only bring changes by taking a position, and by our actions

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

I know you followed me. Don't look so surprised. It's called a rearview mirror.

I had never imagined myself doing [wrestling]. Once I came to the realization that it was a possibility, I just tried to concentrate on what I thought people would enjoy.

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.

I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.