I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

I am not a leader but a pathfinder and a motivator.

You don't know if the water is hot or cold until you stick your toe in.

tread carefullyinto my life, my dear.the currents are strong.you will get lostin this warm oceanof my skin.

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Palaozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide we sprawled in the ooze and slime.

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

The racing that we've got in our industry right now is the best racing in the worldperiod.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.