You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'