There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

Dream Big! Never apologize for it!

Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time.

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

Larger than life itself, and I can’t even believe this striking creature was once a little bit mine.

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.