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.

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

...the depth or humaneness of our love depends on the wideness of our souls.

A philosophy a system of principles that will guide your thoughts and actions.

There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do

I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.

What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.