Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.