I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.

Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.

Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself.

I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.

I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun.

I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.

I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?

I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.

I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.

I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

We have so much separation between feeling the emotional and physical side of sex.

I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».

I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.

And then there is Cate Blanchett. She is different all the time.

I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.

One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.

People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.

I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.

I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.

Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch.

I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world

You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.

To have to watch myself in a way that was constructively critical was really good for me because it made me a little bit more easy on myself because I wasn't allowed to walk away screaming.

I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.

Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.

I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

Hillary Clinton has a real history of uniting people, of being able to work with both Republicans and Democrats, of trying to fight for people's equal rights. Whereas we really see the polar opposite in her opponent.