I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?
I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?
Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research.
You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.
Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.
Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.
I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life.
I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.
Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.
Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.
I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.
Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.
I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.
It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.
I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.
Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
