Along the way, a lot of filmmakers get rid of things that are messy or don't fit in some ways. To me, I want to work with serendipity and things we happened upon. That's our job, that's what the form demands.

If you're only ten feet above, then you're better than when you're on the ground.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you're not creative with and you're not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.

Being the free woman who is sexy and out there is a performance in a way, and being the stay-at-home mom and wife is a performance in itself. All of those performances are living and force you to make decisions about who you really are. Women have to put those performances ahead of things sometimes. Men aren't perceived in the same way.

I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.