You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Direct experience is the only way.

Do not judge me for the many things I do, but rather judge yourself for that which you do not.

What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?

I'm most comfortable on stage.

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.