Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It's shockingly hard.

I like to think of characters in relation to other cinematic characters.

I can't be the only person that's like, "Why am I in love with this guy just because he makes me feel bad?" I can't be the only person in the world who's had that feeling.

I've been in love with my best friend and not been able to tell that person.

I've really carelessly gotten out of relationships that were incredibly destructive instead of being honest.

I've slept with men that are unavailable, I've fallen in love with people I don't know.

When it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are.

Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

I want people to understand and recognize that when it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are. Everyone needs love. We need it like air or water. We just don't know how to get it.

Education is a weapon that doesn't create destruction, that creates peace

Wildness is not found but revealed.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.

Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

There are no plans in President-elect [Donald] Trump's policies moving forward to touch Medicare and Social Security.

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