You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

You know our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have and its often only found in moments of truth.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players.

Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever see. Especially when you have a new project coming out and they're looking to mine some of your lesser-known films.

Jensen Ackles has everything I want. He's in great shape. He's got a full head of hair. He's got a square jawline. He's a big star!

Giving up isn't always the bad thing it's made out to be. Sometimes when you stop putting your energy into something, you free yourself to focus more deeply on something else.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.

Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events.

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling in the blanks.' Medieval chroniclers could be callously indifferent to the needs of future novelists. But I think there is a great difference between filling in the blanks and distorting known facts.

If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.

Life can be unfair sometimes, but that's no reason to give up on it.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.

Running businesses of all sizes and stages, I've seen the challenges companies face in trying to identify, attract, and retain talent.

Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.

All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.

You change the world by being yourself.

Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, ˜God, wasn't it wonderful.'

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.