I don't know if I thrive in normal life.

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.

God hates ignorance.

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

The lives we lead, every decision, it shows on our faces.

Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

Leader. Ship. The word 'ship' is hidden inside the word 'leadership,' as its... derivation.

I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy.

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

There are people who are willing to work within the system, and people who don't want to work with the system at all.