Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

In Adam's fall - We sinned all.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?

The script is what you've dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of tying yourself up in fears that you may never realize" Wulfgar

The things you’re most embarrassed about, most ashamed of, and most reluctant to share are the very tools God can use most powerfully to heal others

Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .