My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible.

It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make.

I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.

Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor.

I'm probably one of the most co-dependent people around. That's why I made a movie about it, and I live it every day.

I think women directors have to be really tenacious.

Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.

I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.

Life wants to support you. But first you need to be open to life.

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.

At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.

I have been attacked by media critics and just critics of my own for years. And that, unfortunately, is part of the job in 2016 America. I was used to that. And I've developed a thick skin.

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.