There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace.

Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.

If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of course you grow up with your films and you are not trotting the same path all the time.

Well, I don't have much job security.