As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.

I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed.

Because audiences all over the world can see an independent film almost anywhere and anytime, these new distribution outlets have opened a door that is revolutionizing the movie-going experience.

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.

I'll take any risk there is.

God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.

For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

To successfully open the door to heightened awareness, we must open it inward.

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.