Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

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.

Falling in love maybe destiny but be in love its depend on your Honesty

we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.

Worry is down payment on a problem that hasn't happened. Trust Jesus!

It's a shame, she had me convinced that she could've been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime.

A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.

In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those practises play out over the years and plan for future droughts.

In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach.

A great leap in the dark