Unfortunately, the small comedies I've done have hardly seen the light of day, which is kinda sad. Dirty Girl was a lot of fun, and I'm so glad it got picked up in Toronto. People really liked it!

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses

One Decision Makes All the Difference

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.But you also get kind of used to it.

If you're going on a journey take a rainbow with you because you never know who you are going to meet.

On the wall of Amshad's office there was a poster that made me laugh: DO NOT GIVE ME A BANGLE, GIVE ME A PEN. Well-meaning charities often train illiterate slum women to make cheap trinkets.

Watching movies is my one distraction.

Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.

T-shirt and jeans style now is where I'm at. Maybe a little rock 'n' roll T-shirt and jeans.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

All true work is sacred.