I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.]

Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.

Begin each new day with your knees bow in prayer.

He didn't laugh when he thought something was funny--he laughed when he was happy.

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.