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At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

Women don't realize how powerful they are

I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another - it shows an inner life. I like to see that there’s something going on inside them.

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet.

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

What I’ve learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you’ll find that you put the time in. You won’t just ask somebody if it’s a good idea, you’ll go figure out if it’s a good idea.

Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom.