Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.

I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.

I love masala movies.

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

I've been in more than 20 movies. You just do the best you can and try to make a living.

When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.

What drew me into making movies is trying to make characters that step off the screen.

I get inspired from all different kinds of places - cartoons, comic books, movies and things like that.

I love watching old movies, reading and having some good meals. I have a very close group of friends and family. I try to spend time with the ones that I love and work as hard as possible.

I've been in movies where so much of the conversation was about, 'Well, after this movie, you're gonna be the biggest movie star.' I sort of have learned that you never really can predict any of that.

The 'serial kisser' tag that has been thrust on to me is a lame stereotype. It irritates me. Yes, there is sexual content in my movies, and I have never been apologetic about doing bold scenes. But it's not fair to tag me this way because that can be very stifling.

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

When we do get a little time off, I tend to watch movies, go to dinners, and keep it low-key.

In my teens, I fell in love with the movies.

The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.

From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.

I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.