There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.
What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.
I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.
I actually started as a director, but then I saw Mark Ruffalo in 'You Can Count on Me,' and I thought to myself, 'I want to do that.'
Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it.
I've been doing this long enough that you can tell when people have seen you in something they didn't enjoy, and when they have seen you in something they actually enjoyed.
When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, 'Oh, she's going to be a movie star.' No one. I had to get by with actual skill and talent.
When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.
The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries.
People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change.
Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible.
I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.
When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.
In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.
I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.
And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.
I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket.
