The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.
I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.
People like 'Crank,' some people like 'Redemption.' I'm just happy to do things that satiate a different part of me, that test me a little bit.
When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.
I'm a pretty hands-off director. I let people try things, and if it gets over-jokey, then I'll try and rein it in a little bit.
I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.
When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.
Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.
Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.
Rehearsals and practice times by myself are like these little islands of 'Okay' in a vast sea of 'Holy Crap!
Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try to write something that's true.
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, it sort of chose me more than I chose it.
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.
The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.
When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself.
The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.
When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.
