Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of bombing.
So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.
AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.
I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.
The ways in which people are damaged are the ways in which they're strong. It's what makes people interesting - what they've overcome and how, and what they haven't and how that's become a good thing. Almost everyone's life is both a gorgeous story and a tragedy. I think being alive is really, really hard, and I'm constantly stunned and amazed by people who make it interesting and beautiful.
I am aware that I've generally been more attracted to introspective roles, but it's sort of bizarre, because it's the opposite of who I am in many ways. I think I'm quite an extroverted, loud person. So it interests me that that's sort of the place that I go all quiet, is when I'm onscreen. It's a bit strange.
We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're responsible, that we can handle it, that we've got all our ducks in a row. . . most women who direct always come in on budget, always come in on schedule, and if they were wild and irresponsible it would not be put down to brilliance, but to a general flakiness.
I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and which ones to let go.
I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.