I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

Hidup harus terus berlanjut, tidak peduli seberapa menyakitkan atau membahagiakan, biar waktu yg menjadi obat

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

I’m not looking for anything, but who knows. Lightning is weird.

Like most people on the planet I have experienced moments when a friend’s, or just a stranger’s, warm cheering up was like a gulp of oxygen essential for survival.

Would you put a pastrami in your mouth if you didn't want to eat it?

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.

Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

There's no excuse to hit a woman... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?

Kids can't look up to girls who are trying to be growner than they are.