Be happy or die.

No two directors make the same film the same way.

I wanted a woman who had the body and the power of a real pilot. I interviewed hundreds of woman, but Jessica just seemed perfect for the part. I couldn't get her out of my head. I continued to bother her and she finally gave in.

Be happy or die.

We all have a social responsibility and have to be mindful of what we do and say.

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

After the Fukushima disaster, Japan shut down most of its reactors and said it would move to renewables.

When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

I like to take my dog on the road. He stays up front; he likes it there.

I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.

A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

It was scary, and I knew what it was like to be an unemployed actress again.

I find wisdom in the waves. Goodbye is a hello to a life without you.

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.

If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.

No matter how you feel... get up, dress up, show up and never give up!

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.