"I actually bedazzled when I was younger. I totally did that to my jeans."

“The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive.”

“We talk often about being in a media-saturated society, and we are surrounded by image streams. But it's nihilistic. There's a real randomness to all of it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.”

Source : "The Playlist Profile: Melanie Lynskey Talks Hollywood, ‘Hello I Must Be Going,’ ‘Heavenly Creatures’ & More" by Maris James, www.indiewire.com. September 04, 2012.

“Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.”

“Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.””

“Literature is achieved anxiety.”

“I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.”

“Even if you're doing something that the studio sends you, or something that's based on a book or story, at the end of it all, you try to make whatever it is your own. This is based on my love of horror movies. Everything is based on something, in some way.”