I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed."

Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it.

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

I am honored and lucky to be one of the first films funded by Gamechanger Films, a consortium of investors who finance movies directed by women.

In all my years, there was only one time I felt fear. That's when I had to send my Clarets away. I never experienced it again. Until you.

When Secretary [Hillary] Clinton talks about people that didn't get paid, first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage of the laws of the nation.

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

Facts can obscure the truth.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just a virtue but a theory'.

Winning takes care of everything.

Winning is what happens when commitment, desire, talent, preparation, hard work, and leadership all come together.

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

My aim is to show the visible as possibility in a state of perpetual becoming.