The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

There's no sustenance in the past.