I feel like that's how women feel in a way. You can get paranoid because everyone actually is a conspiracy to diminish your power.

Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.

What I like about the '60s movies was that they were about women. They were telling women's stories. I think a lot of movies don't tell women's stories anymore.

I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots.

When men create movies about femme fatales, it really is always about how that female can destroy that male. It's not really about what's happening on the interior of that female.

Men's requirements of women are impossible and ridiculous and so destructive.

Anything anybody's used, a comb, a lock of hair, a drop of sweat, anything that comes from somebody's body has incredible magical power.

Every time I get criticism from people, I learn from it and what to do the next time so there are fewer misconceptions. I'm continuing to be socialized as a woman, but also as a filmmaker.

The more that I see the sexism and misogyny that's coming at me from every direction, the less I think my films have anything to do with sexploitation.

I think glamour is a female thing. I don't think that's a male fantasy. I think glamour's a female fantasy.

We women have gained so many more things, but we lost that kind of sexual power, the glamour power. We still love women who can still do that in culture.

Your thoughts are your wand. Trust what you think and it will happen.

The argument could be made that the word hero is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to teachers.

I'm a kid from New Hampshire who's pretty normal.

Credulity is always ridiculous.

It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

Humor is a universal language.

If no one thinks you can, then you have to.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

Theres a fine line between playing a dim-witted character and playing a cartoon.