Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

I do have to say I have been very fortunate.

My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.