Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.

I want my film to be possible to use as a reference when we are trying to live our lives.

Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.

I think the actors take a great responsibility for the characters in the movie.

I'm not a genre film filmmaker. I'd rather look for a topic that I think we need to bring up and discuss because there's something about the issues in the film.

I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

My whole experience into the sitcom world, it was, like, "This is like theater, this is like film... This is a hybrid of everything I love to do. A live audience and rehearsals and... more food!"

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

I’m definitely a girly-girl and I love playing with fashion, but at the same time I will go skydiving with you tomorrow.

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.