For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

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.

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.

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.

My grandpa, unlike Jarod Kintz, was an Elder. Now that he's dead and gone, he's a ghost French wizard. And no one knows what French wizards are good at…

You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.

My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

I'm against cronyism, and I had to learn that early on. Like, I don't have an entourage, because I saw the negative effects of those things.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.

The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient if I don't have so much in the way between me and my opponent.

An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.