Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

Just because you may not feel confident about doing something now does not mean you will not master it later with ease.

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.

If the husband is always the prime suspect, the lover must be second in line.

I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.

I don't go by trends. I wear what I am comfortable in and what suits me. It is never about what is 'in' and what is 'out'. My personal sense of style spells 'comfort'.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

Don't leave me." "Leave you? I'm going to marry you.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.