"I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?"

"I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story."

"Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist."

"I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling."

"It is a essential truth that beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

"To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now."

"To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity."