You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress!

In order to live up to your full potential on earth, you must always challenge and replace any thought or belief that goes against your happiness and success.

Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

That people will object very much to seeing a predator killing its prey, and yet, in the news, will accept showing shots of people shooting one another.

You've got to earn respect as life goes on.

The vaccinations are not working, and they are dangerous.. We should be working with nature.

Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?" I didn't say anything.

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.

O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride; O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell; O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside; O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell.