The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident..

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it..

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't..

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name….

My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy..

One should make morals judgements for oneself..

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art….

With each project, I'm going for something that makes viewers think, 'Wow, I've never seen a film like this before,' and later think, 'Wow, I've only….

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell..

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies..

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously..

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well..

There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for ….

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way..

What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail..

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring..

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author co….

I don't know if I thrive in normal life..

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a b….

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one..

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesnt work like that..