The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.

It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential.

Reading is a pleasurable paradise.

Do you really want people to like you for something that you’re not? It takes a lot of energy to pretend to be someone else for the sake of pleasing others.

...somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Being dead is highly overrated. It’s no fun at all." -- Mythe: A Fairy Tale

Where there's a will, there's a potential for murder

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.