I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

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.

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.

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten from the tree of knowledge.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called "Body and Soul."

[Barak] Obama's immigration behavior, executive amnesty, this DREAMer stuff - everything he's doing - is outside the law.

I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.

But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.