That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

To get anything done, you used to have to brush past, or at least lay eyes on, someone whose reality was totally different from your own. That used to be inevitable. If that goes away because everything's so convenient, everything's brought to you, well, then there goes one of my favorite parts of life, and something that I've gone out of my way to court.

As a woman filmmaker it's pretty important that you have some basis of confidence that you're coming from, because, as I got closer to LA, there's less and less women. There's less and less mirrors for who you are.

There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.

I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.

She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.

We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.