Music is what our feelings sound like.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

I do love directing. I'm only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

There are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them... or both!

In opposition... to all the suggestions of the devil, the sole, simple, and sufficient answer is the word of God. This puts to flight all the powers of darkness.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

I don't think my parents know what I do.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.