What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.

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.

Today you are planting seeds to your dream. Be patient because it will be a large harvest.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.

Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

Survivors told me that sleep was a great escape from the nightmare that was Jonestown. I also longed for bedtime each night at Escuela Caribe; sleep allowed me to forget where I was for a few hours.

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.

The seeing is instant. The recognition can be instant but it will take some time to stabilize the mind into the heart completely.

I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.