If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

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

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

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.

A courageous and determined person finds opportunity in every adversity.

Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.

Men like fun much more than they like clever

There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling.

My feet is my only carriage.

You eat the burger but you don't want the slaughterhouse next door to where you live.

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.

It's all a compost heap. You just put down a layer of humus that helps other stuff grow. Your work will all be forgotten, but it will help stuff grow.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.