Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.