When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

In case you didn't know... You are her. The one he let get away.

But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?

Without total dedication & discipline, success in any field is just a wishful thinking.

The volume of your muscles doesn't make you a good husband. The way you treat her does.

Put on your yarmulkahHere comes HannukahSo much funnukahTo celebrate Hannukah

I'm on the road so much that I don't get to spend as much time there as I would like.

I don't know, but I stepped on a scale that gives fortunes and the card read Come back in 15 minutes alone.

Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

I listen with love to my body's messages.

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.