I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

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.

I swear it looked like she wanted her words to slither around us and go out the door unheard.

When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation.

Me and Miz are one and the same. I share some of the qualities he has and I need to learn some things from him, but there's absolutely no jealousy here between the two of us.

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you're OK. You can't go wrong.

I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.

Never underestimate your own strength. You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it.

To do wrong is the greatest of evils.

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.