Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.

For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.

I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives

Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

Out here in Amish. Smokin big doinks in Amish. Gang.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

It's outrageous. It's ridiculous. And 'twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It's so annoying.

This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives.

A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.

It must be weird having one child.

After all, it's me that needs to change, not my circumstances.

When I learn something, when I know something, when I find something. I always want to share it. Because life is better when you share it.

May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care.

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.