I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.

Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew

The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing my personal fantasy, whether it's a fantasy of pleasure or of pain and fear.

I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.

A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.

Statements don't exist by themselves. Just like people, they are in relationship with one another.

I should probably start with the blood.

I am what I am. A fighter.

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?

The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it... !!

I didn't marry a man that wanted to be in the business. But that's why we're a perfect fit.

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

The better the person you're with, the better you're going to be because they're giving you so much more.