“I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's m...” — Carla Gugino Quote

“I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.”

“Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.”

“I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.”

“Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.”

“I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.”

“I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.”

“What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.”

“Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.”

“I really do the conventions now for two reasons.”

“There are artists who make their living now going to conventions... because now you can.”

“Writing limericks gives us a playground, a release from these conventions.”

“I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.”