Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

We have no peace because we have forgotten that we all came from the same mother. We are brothers and sisters.

You are most happy when you can give yourself away to others.

If you think you can you can. And if you think you can't you're right.

It was so fun. Being ahead and still being relaxed, we got to chill out.

Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Not all the chains are bad and not all the freedoms are good!

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

Cinema has reached a dead end.

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.