Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.

You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

I don't look my best when I wake up! But I do feel beautiful when I'm tired and happy and I've had a good laugh and a glass of champagne.

I don't see myself stopping, even though it gets harder and harder. Especially when you find out that you can't really compromise because of age.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.