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

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

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.

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.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

Hell, yeah, Ryland. Man up and carpe girl.

In the factory we make cosmetics in the drugstore we sell hope.

I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was planning for the book, Miracle, I was drawn to blossoms that appealed to me artistically.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to us.