“I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.”

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.

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 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.

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.

Notice patterns & believe them.

The worst thing is believing that you are alone in your journey when you are not.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

Only the actions of a person speak about his personality and attitude towards you, do not believe the words, just observe and you will see the truth.

Be your own biggest fan, your own biggest believer, and put it on your back and carry the weight.

When I stopped believing in love, the universe sent you to remind me that love, true love, does exist, even for me.

I’m a blessing to whoever gets to really know me.