I don't want anyone, especially a man, telling me what I can or cannot do with my money, job, or body.

Nobody seems to care that with every push to live up to their expectations, my own dreams vaporize.

You will know a friendship is not natural when you don't feel relaxed with

I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.

I have never said authoritarians are pathological

I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

A lot of guys see the complexity of the game; I see the simplicity.