You are so much a part of me that it physically hurts when you are away--like I can't fully breathe until you are back again.

The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully

What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?

I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?

I'm too fast, too sexy and too talented to be blown away by a large, slow robot from the Ukraine.

I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'

If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.

Don't dream of winning, train for it.

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.

If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.