I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

The best way to solve a problem is to prevent it.

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t

his legacy, if there is one, is that I try to do my best to see people whole, for who they are and what they've been through. especially those who matters to me

Gentleman: one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

It's hard to peak when you've been training since 1965.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

It's hard to articulate what everybody else is feeling.

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.