I like high impact movies.

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.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.

The best way to judge the worth of a person’s wealth is to count the number of genuine people he has got in his network.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

America is not an ethnostate. We are not rooted in blood and soil.

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.

The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world

I respect the path Cuba chooses to take.

Yeah, I’ll always be your friend. No matter what you love.