It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.

Who you think you are is only a thought.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

I live for makeup and I like wine. These are my truths!

My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.