. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set..

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra.

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei.

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them..

I only have control over what I do..

You can put anything into words, except your own life..

No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy..

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States..

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my bo….

You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you..

Carlos Castaneda always said, "If you're going to do something, do it impeccably.".

I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be..

I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian..

Friendship isn't always sunnyside up..

Without me there could be no everybody..

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands..

You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get..

Get ticked and get going..

I have respected women from the beginning of my life..

I preferred to read than talk with the others..

Love can tame the wildest..