When you are attracted to, and eat, fruits, occasionally a seed will be carried within you to a fertile ground.

Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

I'm happy with the way everything turned out. Even the mistakes we've made I wouldn't take back because they ended up yielding something good.

I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.