When you're on a Terrence Malick film, it's like you're part of a family.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

All people must pray for peace.

Fill my mouth with the accuracy and potency of Your word and Spirit that I may make war through prayer with swift precision (Psalm 144:1).

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated each other and were sort of in love with each other.

Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.