“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.”

I love yoga and hiking – I think that’s the perfect combo.

I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.

People think that young people don’t care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren’t super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.

Seeing the energy of ‘SNL’ made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.

If a woman feels anchored to a man’s plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she’s worried she’s missing.

You really just have to love the process. I can’t tell you the amount of film sets I’ve been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.

Weakness is something we don’t like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

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.

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

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.

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.

If you have a company called x and today you feel the price is very high. Next year it could perform very well but the price may not perform. So in the stock market what happens is buy on the rumor, sell on the news.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Only hire people you want to have dinner with.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.