There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

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.

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

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.

Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.

The only step that makes the valuable to become valueless is the negative side of your eyes that you use to see it.

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

He stopped and looked back at me "I love you too Pagan. I'll miss you. In every life.

In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.