I want people to consider the idea that the only way of moving forward with their lives is to revisit and confront their issues and their pasts.

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

I want young women to think about different possibilities for their lives.

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

I measure the success of my work by the way I feel about a film before anyone else has seen it. I think I can trust myself to know when the work is good and deep and interesting and when it isn't.

The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42)

Our most potent memories include the taste and smells of foods we enjoyed as a child in part because it reminds us of who fed us a meal.

The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

Minimization is what happens when we take the "world is flat" idea too far...and act as if people everywhere are the same (and thereby minimizing the differences).

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

Just smile for me and let the day begin.

We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us.