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

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

The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.

When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.

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.

There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.