There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them.

My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.

I went out on my own, years ago, to try to create some additional choices in a parallel universe.

Donald Trump just has always elevated women to the highest echelons.

I never knew I was so stupid or so ugly until there was social media.

Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform? Are you gonna look me in the face and tell me that?

We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves.

I want to talk about things that are quantifiable, not a bunch of metro riders and crowd sizes.

Usually based on an economic agenda, white working-class voters don't buy into this whole biology-chemistry-abortion-gender agenda as much as they want more take-home pay. They want affordability.

When I see Twitter feeds, when I see words that are people are using to describe Donald Trump, it is incredibly disrespectful to the office.

Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.

Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.

The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast.

No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.

People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't?

I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.

Your body is your instrument, you play it expertly.

I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.