I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

I'm a scamp. I don't deny it. I like myself.

For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still times when I think, Uh-oh! I gotta talk to somebody here or I'm gonna go crazy! But I like to be alone. Now I do. I really do. There's a big luxury in solitude.