In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.

Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew

The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing my personal fantasy, whether it's a fantasy of pleasure or of pain and fear.

I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.

A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.

I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.

an unknown and forgotten treasure of the earliest Christians, a manual for living used by the generation of Jesus followers immediately after the apostles.

Honesty is the best policy.

There is no beginning that is a blank page.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context

Those lips had curved into a knowing half smile that did funny things to her insides. And like a match tossed to gasoline, her body sparked alive and flames licked every inch of her.

And I am a mockery, who was God before.

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

A misbehaving child, is a discouraged child