I don't know why, but the warmth and the comfort of flickering light help. And a fire, in the fireplace or on the beach, is very comforting. I think when you make something consistent and familiar, it helps. I light candles every single night in my home.

I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.

I've had to find my sanity.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.

I have these huge, pointed ears. They're like three times the size of Orlando Bloom's ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love my ears.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.