I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

I have so many children. Half of mine are the ones that just must climb the tree, must climb the mountain, must get dirty, must jump off, flip into the pool sideways because it's just who they are. So you try to give them as much guidance and prepare them but they are who they are.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are big issues of our times, we must speak about them, we must learn how to better understand how these things happen so we can address them.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Nothing would mean anything if I didn't live a life of use to others.