I think the blood is spilling in Syria and it's mostly Muslims.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also felt less and less provided for.

They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.

I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.

She had the power to remove a child from an unkind parent and she sometimes did. But remove herself from an unkind husband? When she was weak and desolate? Where was her protective judge?

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.

You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.