I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.

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.

Art depends on luck and talent.

I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.

[Barack] Obama is the great divider, he has totally used race. And it should have been the other way around. He had an opportunity to unify and he didn't do that.

I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path

I think most entrepreneurs would refer to themselves as "accidental". No one looks for stress and pain. You stumble on to it.

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.