My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

Skills or professionalism is another factor of growth

Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

I want to make the songs good. I think this is my main focus.

Sixty-five countries doing nothing is not a coalition. We need a strategy. That's the first and foremost thing that we need.

I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.