I'm probably one of the most co-dependent people around. That's why I made a movie about it, and I live it every day.

It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make.

My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible.

I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.

Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor.

I think women directors have to be really tenacious.

She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

how peaceful a bedroom is without a man in it.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Life at its essence boils down to one day at a time. Today is the day!

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

I don't watch cable news at night. So I can honestly tell you that I am not in a funk, I am not depressed, I'm not suicidal, I'm not thinking it's over.

You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.