I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.

I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.

If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

You cannot stay the way you are and go with God.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone.

If you knew the mercy I am showing by not dismembering you where you stand for getting in my way, you would not stop thanking me.

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism.

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.