Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.
I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.
It was fun to play that surreal high school life [in Jawbreaker]. I was a huge fan of the movie Heathers. But I think at the time - you know, when the movie was released, it was a very limited release, and it didn't do very well at the box office. And I love the fact that it has found legs and that the audience has kept growing and growing over the years.
The fans are just as passionate about the projects as we are about making them.
I love the fans of genre. Genre fans are the best fans. They're loyal, they're dedicated, and they're passionate about the projects. They get it on a cerebral level. Being a part of that culture and that world. . . It's very gratifying and very fulfilling.
I've had a career where I've bounced around a lot between different genres, and I feel very lucky and very blessed that that's happened to me.
[Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt] pushed me out of my comfort zone [in Buffy The Vampire Slayer ].
In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.
My understanding of voodoo is that it was important to the people who practiced it because it helped them survive. There are practical ways it enabled survival. It used herbal medicine to heal, to aid in childbirth. It was a spiritual system. It made room for hope and for magic and for possibility. For people who struggle and fight to survive and who fight to live, those are really important things.
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.