Always, in all circumstances, wear comfortable shoes. You never know when you may have to run for your life.

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.

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

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 hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father

I always take my time when picking out outfits at home, but I will say I can change pretty quick when I'm in a hurry.

Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Early on it was much easier to play leads, but now independent movies are being co-opted by the studio system, and they want bigger names to guarantee more audience and more numbers.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.