AVA. Quotes

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.

I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time.

I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?

I'm sitting on the stile. Mary, Where we sat side by side.

And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?

Love makes us such fools.

I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter.

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. But that time has passed.

we talk of plans that are going to happen.we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.there is a sort of comfort in that.

the opening, the breaking, the falling apartis always so quick.the hurting, the healing, the putting back togetheris always too long.

i can't hold onto love.i'm not gentle enough.i always end upcrushing the thingin between my fingertips.

we get brave.we move.we believe.we keep going.

everything i know about loveis that it hurtsand is almost always never returnedthe way you want it to.but i have hopebecause i do not know everything.

you giver of light.you lover of love.you beautifulbeautifulhuman being you.

the hope is smallbut it is everything.

i am changingand i am loving change.

every choice i have ever made after you existedhas been dependent on exactlyhow close i can have you next to meand how long i can get you to stay.

i am soft again.there is water and it surrounds me.there is feeling and i can feel it.i am awake and aliveand swollen and heavy with love.i am changingand i am loving change.

i am awake and aliveand swollen and heavywith love.

i feel everything.i do not know how to un-feeland to not feelis to stop the sun.

i took it off.i did not want to carry it with me anymore.

i wanted to destroy you.you are mine to ruin.something so beautifulshould only exist for me.

let your love cover me like skin.i want the whole world to see.

we talk of plans that are going to happen.we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.there is a sort of comfort in that.

i know it all ends the same, but i was interested in seeinghow you would break my heart.

you came in slowly like the fogand consumed me.

i want so much to touch youwhere my hands cannot.

hold company with yourself so sacredthat even when you are alone, you are whole.

some people are so deepyou fall into themand you never stop falling.

i over love.i under love.i am either a floodor i am nothing.

i swallowed the syllables of your nameand i was full.

do not let anyone inuntil they love you so fiercely, you have no defense against their love.

you giver of light.you lover of love.you beautifulbeautifulhuman beingyou.

you have outgrown this skin.stop trying to hold it in.stop trying to hold it together.let yourself break.

you wanted it all to make senseand you wanted the most complicated answer, but the answer is simple.just be.

remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe.you are capable of love.

oh, the heartbreakingly beautifultender weight of being human.

i just want to be honest about my feelings without destroying everything.

love yourself first, and you will always be in love.

no one needs love from youmore than you need love from you.love yourself first, and you will always be in love.

and sadness clung to mebecause she did not knowhow to be alone.

there's always been a little sadness inside my happiness.i've never been able to separate the two.

things keep falling in and out of place.this is the universe's way of taking care of me.

there is a difference betweenloneliness and solitude, one will empty you andone will fill you.you have the power to choose.

i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone.who could i love more than this peace?

i am a womanand i am alone, and i cannot tellwhich one of the twoi love being more.