We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

Work is an instrument through which you bring yourself to fulfillment

She couldn't detach from him, couldn't catch her breath, and didn't want to. Not ever again.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

Hey ladies, I'm willing to do my part to end domestic violence by posting a selfie online. Some might call me a hero

Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could receive.

I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a singing and dancing European intellectual.

Who needs to walk on fire, when you can walk on water with this site.