Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

Learning to have the confidence to grab the opportunity when it presents itself makes you a winner.

Darkness tests stars, but they shine.Storms test trees, but they stand.Adversity tests the great, but they soar.

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

A lady's hair is her crowning glory

The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.

Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.