We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

Nature is a series of murders.

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

It seems like there'd be no Donald Trump without the internet, first of all. He's a tweeter, which is basically just a bullhorn.

I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted.

I love British female directors lately.

I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.

I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick

Hope is a very thin diet.

Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can't be compared to what Saddam was doing to people.

Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

I am what you call a hooligan-

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

Death is the quiet haven of us all.