You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

You have to conquer every obstacle to realize the goal.

Long after people forget what you said or did, they’ll remember how you made them feel.

The history of all times and of today especially teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

A person hears only what they understand.

always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.