The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.
I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.
It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that.
We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.
In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.
I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
One of the big things in television these days is there's no main title sequence anymore.
It is quite possible that we will soon come to live under some sort of global despotism, enlightened or not. This is not a nice prospect. And there is only one way of avoiding that this happens: to establish a global democracy. And it is not too late to strive for such a democracy, of a straightforward populist nature, where people on the globe elect a world parliament, which in turn elects a world government.
I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.
Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.