I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].

Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.

Make films. And don't listen to anybody, except those who tell you "yes" and who are ready to help you.

I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films.

True pain teaches us to grow. You aren't finished yet. Dylan needs you.

I think one who thrives on death may be defeated by life.Elswyth, from A Precarious Journey Into Magic

Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.

I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves.

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear