New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.

America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.