There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it.

I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed."

I am honored and lucky to be one of the first films funded by Gamechanger Films, a consortium of investors who finance movies directed by women.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must, ' The youth whispers, 'I can.

Sometimes it's not something special we need but doing something extra.

The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

I think it is outrageous - to lock people's money away and change the rules on them. So, on point of principle, I stopped putting money into my pension.

If you create the stage setting and it is grand, everyone who enters will play their part.

I smile at her. "You're an angel." "Nah," she says. "I'm just a girl crazy in love.

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.