I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

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.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

Before desiring for more success in your life, try to at least be grateful with your current blessings. Being in good health is more than enough to be thankful.

Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué. I thought too that our youth was over and we had failed to find happiness.

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

It's humiliating to have to explain your value.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.