It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential.

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.

Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.

God is my everlasting Father.

When we are right, we earn. When we are wrong, we learn.

I was dying, I realized vaguely. There was no getting out of that. The vampire author would be drained dry by a vampire. It was almost a poetic way to go.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.

I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

Personally I give us . . . one chance of three.

You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace.