I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

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.

It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.

Break my mirror-heart into a thousand pieces my beloved, so that to the world i may proudly flaunt your thousand reflections

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

I don't really know anything about fashion, I just kind of wing it and do what I want at the time.

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

What is government but theft by consent?