Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

Well, I got better after this, and my entire family really did appreciate it. Usually, they're resentful of movies that I go off and make, but this one had a bonus attached. But yeah, she had no breath.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.