The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing my personal fantasy, whether it's a fantasy of pleasure or of pain and fear.

Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew

I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.

A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.

I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.

And I chose life and love and happiness and pain

We are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.

It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish.

We are a blue planet and an ocean world.

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

There is so much that people take for granted.

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.