Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.

Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.