When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

I just love variety. I love being able to do different things. Do period pieces and sci-fi. I love being able to move between genres and be flexible.

What is life if you don't have a dream to chase?

What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

McDonald's Meets Moschino at Milan Fashion Week

The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.

I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming,as drought-making as it is life-giving.

In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it. I just didn't know if I had any gift or voice and I had no confidence about it.

To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.