When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.

Any time you have questions when you're watching something, it's good - it makes you want to watch more.

I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.

I always look towards the light of my desires, so I never forget where I'm going.

Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.

People don't like the word 'feminism' - that's what needs to change, because we're not going to find another word.

Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men.

That was the challenge. How can you tell the story here and make sure it goes the same way on the other side of the world?

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.

When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.

Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.