I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

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.

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

If you want to shine like sun, first you have to burn like it.

Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness; without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

The mind can be our best friend and advocate in getting what we want in life, or it can pull the brakes on and be a nasty little foe – the choice is yours – choose your attitude.

The girly movie i secretly love is Pippy Longstockings.

The same facts impress us differently.