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.

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 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].

One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? she wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment?

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

Social media is where losers go to feel important.

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

I think that players that are better at reading people are much more dangerous and difficult to play against, because then you have to think more about what they might be thinking.

I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.

If you're doing what you love, then that's what matters. I am happy, and I am happy where I am. If things go downhill, then I move on to the next, and that's what makes me happy.

If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.

Talk about tactful - she's got a tongue like a Kalashnikov!