In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

I can't stand most things that I see.

If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

I feel much more comfortable dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. I'm wearing very fancy clothes today. It's Valentino. But the film ["Devil Wears Prada"] did not make me change my style. If anything, it has made me appreciate the people who do this every morning in a serious way, get dressed up and really put together that look. I mean, wow. It's amazing.