Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.
I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.
A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.
Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.
We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.
I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.
I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.
I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.
Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!
One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.
Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.
