...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

If we could eliminate the concept of town and return to live in small villages, all world problems were solved.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Someone, somewhere, is making a product that will make your product obsolete.

Violence is the only way to answer violence.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.

To be defeated and yet not surrender, this is victory.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.