I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

The apartments are made for eels.

For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.

Never be angry with something that can't get angry with you.

Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

How lucious lies the pea within the pod.

The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

People shouldn’t be ashamed of their bodies...especially women.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

I'm 61 years old. I'm not that fearful of the future, period. I'm not going to see that much of it.