The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

I am living life daringly.

God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can’t see it.

We're all only fragile threads but what a tapestry we make.

[It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.

the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.

When those in power deny you of freedom the only path to freedom is power

I think the idea of family and protecting the family is something that ties a lot of these women together.

If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.