At first I THOUGHT the CHARACTER Sun-young was a NORMAL character, but later I realized that she is not after all. In some SENSE, she could be FIERCE.

In the litany of ISSUES that separate the TWO Americas - one more conservative and one more liberal, increasingly as opposed and intractable and opaque to each other as the Palestinians and Israelis - none is so FIERCE, precise, inviolable and confounding to the other side as GUNS.

When I dance, I LOOK almost identical to Beyonce. And I MEAN identical. In many WAYS, when she becomes Sasha FIERCE, she's actually just becoming me.

You KNOW what, we can be really FIERCE with each other but as soon as SOMEONE tries to TAKE either one of us on, that's not one of us, we back each other up.

I'm all for streaming, and I do THINK it's thrilling that a gazillion people can SEE our FILM the day it drops. On the other hand, I'm a FIERCE believer of the theatergoing EXPERIENCE. My hope would be that films can be enjoyed in both ways, that there's room for both.

I first fell in LOVE with MUSIC when I was five YEARS old because of 'Annie.' And then 'The Little Mermaid' really made me WANT to start singing. And then the fierce, amazing WOMEN of the '90s - Alanis Morrissette, Courtney Love, Tori Amos, Ani Difranco, Paula Cole, Patty Griffin - made me want to start writing.

Now I'm GOING to SHOW a SIDE of me I haven't SHOWN before. I'm going to be FIERCE.

The severe HOUSEHOLD has no FIERCE SLAVES, while it is the affectionate MOTHER who has the prodigal SON.

I think I've had a LOT of experience with watching other people shepherd my ideas with the 'Saw' films. They made FOUR 'Saw' movies without me. I NEVER really had a protective or fierce policy towards that. I let it GO.

During the protracted tooth-and-nail tussle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 DEMOCRATIC primaries, I was one of those fierce partisans DESPERATE for the first black CANDIDATE with a SERIOUS shot at the White House to WIN the nomination.

The narratives in which you're BORN have a FIERCE PATTERN of REPETITION.