I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

People who succeed in business aren't afraid to hear feedback from their customers -- they actually thrive from it.

The purpose of life is the lesson.

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.

Find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life

Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company.

It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

Learn what pitch you can hit good; then wait for that pitch.