On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

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.

From all my dreams where you felt everlastingto all my clothes your words used to wear, to the old end, to the new beginning, you have lost me everywhere.

Reason obeys itself

It would have been better if I had won, but reaching the final was perfect.

Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.

The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success.

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

I can't know what I'm going to do before I'm in front of the lens. And I think that sort of makes it exciting.

Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.