So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.

In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film.

It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?

And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.

So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time.

I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.

It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience.

I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

I feel like I'm going to be with the Cowboys the rest of my career, definitely. I love it.

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

In Washington, I'll always support military families and help veterans make the transition home, not just as your congressman but as a proud Army mom.

I love 'MacGyver.'

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Unfortunately, nothing can protect you from the thoughts in your own head.

Gardening is any way that humans and nature come together with the intent of creating beauty.

I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.

I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be.

I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh.

I quite like the Queen. Now, this must come as a fairly amazing statement for someone who is avowedly left wing, pro-independence and anti-monarchy, but there you go.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered and tries to deceive with truth itself.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.

Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.