When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

A life of happiness, peace, and love is all within our grasp.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

How far does life take us? I don't see anything at the end.

Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

You may not think you're going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.

I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.

No matter who you are or where you're from somewhere down the road you're gonna need someone.

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.