There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

What? Quinn's one of them? I just thought he was an a*shole!

Let this moment whisper through eternity. Let it fill my every dream and visit me each night.

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

I try to be as unsexy as possible.

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

We always want to let people leave with some sort of like, "Great, I want to see more." Not, "Oh my God, that's still on?"

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.

That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'