When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

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.

And I dare to believe that it really is. I dare to bet on us again.

Only when that time is converted can you produce something from it. You can only make wealth from a time well converted.

True respect means accepting someone and honoring his or her thoughts and feelings.

Everyone deserves respect and justice no matter what they look like.

You say you are disappointed with life. But maybe it is life that' is disappointed with you.

A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.

Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.

As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me .... / Beautifully .. on every side .... / As I walk .. I walk with beauty.

Any game that you step on, you can get beat.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.