I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.

For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.

I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives

Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

...true wisdom is the skill and practice of death.

None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

BlackBerrys are a wonderful tool. I'm very tenacious about keeping up with my kids, as they are with me.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.