The moment that you start to read a script, you're watching the movie in your mind, and that's the one moment that you have. Then, you go off to make the movie and you become so lost in it.

Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

I'm weirdly flexible, so when I dance, I dance like a 17-year-old girl.

I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.

I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.

I would like to think there is a reason and a choice behind everything.

You've got to stop going back and forth. You've got to make up your mind.

I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end.

I don't know how to describe my sense of humor.

I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.

I never really want to repeat myself, obviously, but even if I do, it's because it is a choice.

Human beings are by nature political animals

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.

As you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.

Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.

The president has to have the trust, earn the trust, maintain the trust of people in order to lead. And there's nothing that will lose it quicker than a sense that he's in it for a quick buck.

All polishing is done by friction.

Harte sent one of her revived men after him, and Pat sent him back in boxes.

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself