But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?

Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up.

If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.

The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.