As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.