“I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. ‘Tron’ was such a departure for me.”

Power tends to get confused with repression.

I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I’d like to write a movie about it.

There are so many young women in film school right now, and it’s just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

All actors should experience public failure.

The thing that’s wonderful about social media is that we are able to give a voice to the voiceless and to help educate each other. I benefit from it as much as I provide those lessons.

I have very high standards for every part of life – my work, my relationships, food, love. I can’t just pretend.

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it’s worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

You realize when you’re pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it’s great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

The way a person makes you feel is what makes you stick.

For in the wild I feel the safest where the thorns of the invisible hand can not prick me.

Some nights I wish I could slip into her skin and wear her flesh only to feel his touch.

Humans need breaks. Humans need to cry. Humans need to feel mad, sad, happy, and all the emotions in between. And humans need to have boundaries. 

Your soul cannot take material things with it. All the “stuff” does not matter. How you make others feel matters.

I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

Nothing was trying to hurt me, except my own thoughts, which felt like needles, trying to stitch tears within my eyes.

Treat your body like a home where your soul feels safe.