I was BORN in a ghetto on the NORTH Side of Pittsburgh. I was born as Emmett Till was DYING and the civil RIGHTS ERA was being born.

I want to convince you that HUMANS are, to some extent, NATURAL born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just RESPOND to things as we see them or feel them or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their HIDDEN NATURE is.

There's NEVER a NEW FASHION but it's OLD.

Whatever our bedtime was as KIDS, we could stay up an extra half HOUR if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen KING or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a READER.'

I am very ambitious and have set GOALS for myself. I really don't keep a tab on what my contemporaries are doing. I want to push myself as an actress and don't want to get into the rat race. With EVERY film, I want to GROW as a person and an actress. The character I PLAY NEEDS to change me in real life.

Mathematical SCIENCE shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to USE and apply that language, we must be able fully to APPRECIATE, to feel, to seize the unseen, the UNCONSCIOUS.

I KNOW television. I've done it for a while, and I know that most of the TIME, you don't GET SECOND chances.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And GETTING an independent FEATURE made, it's like you GET down to the selling organs part, and it just LOSES some of its LUSTER.