What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.

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.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself

Never mind your happiness do your duty.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Derek (Jeter) told me the ghosts would show up eventually!

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right.

I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections.

I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.