Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of ….

I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people..

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure..

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people..

In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what h….

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious..

He wasn’t a carrier of commitment-phobia or other notable boy diseases and he used expensive moisturizer. That’s about all it takes to bang my gong..

I think I have always sort of cultivated a flowery writing style. I've always sort of over - written in every genre that I've attempted. I went to co….

Somebody asked me earlier if I thought it was really important to tell stories about women's struggles. And I said yes, but at the same time, it's al….

A lot of people are concerned with staying physically young...I'm more interested in maintaining my curiosity..

I didn't even know how to talk to people, I didn't know how to talk to the press. I was just a jester. And I still feel that way. But, I mean, what h….

For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last c….

One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cli….

You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable..

I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ours….

Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are os….

When you're trying to come up with an idea for a movie it's actually the hardest part - the germ of the idea. Inevitably you think of something that ….

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane..

You hear the term "staying grounded" a lot when you're coming up in the movie industry and it's the one word I don't really understand because it imp….

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose..

He is the cheese to my macaroni..