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

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.

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.

Rediscovering our own miraculousness is the most important, valuable, world-peacing, beauty-spreading, kind, and generous thing we can do.

A democracy is not truly democratic unless it's secular.

What you love most always finds a way to also become your biggest weakness.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

The vast silence of Buddha overtakes and overrules the oncoming roar of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues; it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.

True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.

We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth

It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.

Get on with life because life gets on without you.