I would give female filmmakers the same advice I'd give any filmmaker; believe in your vision, believe in your team, believe in yourself.
Belief and seeing are both often wrong.
That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress andor in the public.
[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.
General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!
Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
Saving lives, one day at a time, just like always
But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System - and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.
The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it's all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life.