I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

I do feel that if it's not on the page, there's no hope of it getting to the stage. You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you. Sometimes there's this real naïveté that people possess, where they want you to infuse a scene with a certain quality, and it's like an apology. "I read the script, didn't you? What's the agenda here?"

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.