Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

I think it's important that when people are struggling, that you not run away from them if you love them. Kristen, I mean, I look at the room tonight, you know, Kristen Stewart and Claire Danes, Jennifer Lawrence, all these young women that I worked with who basically were child actors like I was a child actor. And then I feel very protective of them, because even though I think I have managed to get through the process relatively sanely, I have my scars, and I hope to be in some ways a member of their family that's out there protecting them.

There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God.