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.

When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.

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.

I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.

I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.

I'm always just trying to get the work done so that I can be free - like, with the sense that, like, the real me has no interest in this? I just gotta do it for my boss. But the catch is that I'm never free, I never finish the work, so I don't know who this freewheeling employee with extracurricular interests is.

An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.