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

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.

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.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

People who create their own opportunities are more successful than people who expect opportunities to be created for them.

I am absolutely convinced without any uncertainty that the old adage, History Repeats Itself is a valid assertion.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.

Stormy in love, stormy in interviews, breakfast in bed - that's me, love.

The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

The biggest gift I received as a martial artist is without a question the capacity to be in peace.

Being cheerful keeps you healthy

Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.