Don’t get hung up on the female thing. The art is not about that.

I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota.

My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.

It's really the best time to be a woman. And instead it can be an advantage. Think about what you can bring to the table that what you have to offer that makes you unique.

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire.

I want people to think about what and who they have in their lives and then run home to hug them and tell them how much they love them.

You can't expect everything to happen all at once when it's been such a male-dominated world for so long.

Hope is believe in the word of God.

However deaf the ring of our love bells should strike they will eventually disperse this world’s emptiness clouds.

When two Englishmen meet their first talk is of the weather.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?

I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.

I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.