We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents.

Too many people have died so unnecessarily; AIDS is completely preventable, yet it's killing more kids in South Africa then everything else, and that's just not how it should be.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.

[If you want to] ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.

I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.