My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Join hands with other protagonists of love and peace and become a love commander.

You are the only one who knows what you are actively doing to avoid being what you want to be.

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.

Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

When I'm not working or promoting something, I try to be as under-the-radar as I can .

Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.