There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

Life's a wondrous journey, don't take it for granted.

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.

Age had nothing to do with how well my brain worked.

No one ever does the last thing on their list.

The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.

We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist.

Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses.