Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it.

I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed."

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

I am honored and lucky to be one of the first films funded by Gamechanger Films, a consortium of investors who finance movies directed by women.

I needed someone to tell me that I was sane, that I was special, and that I wasn't all that special.

It is never late to earn a degree, masters or doctorate. Learning has no age limit. All age groups are welcome to the act of learning.

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery

I had gone to school to study marine biology.