I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

Love cannot last without a foundation of forgiveness.

(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.

The amount of people that I feel like... I'm not being self-demeaning, but I actually feel like I'm not as cool as them, you know what I mean?

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.

Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!

There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.