"I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did."

"You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation."

"People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies."

"People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible."

"It is a unyielding truth that fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: i will try once more tomorrow."

"To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows the true master is an eternal student."

"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."