The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.
Fear of anti-Semitism almost is part of our religion. Throughout time Jewish people have experienced traumas that we relive in a lot of the things we celebrate.
The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.
Along the way, female filmmakers will have the feeling that they're not good enough. And that's really just a result of being "otherized" from the moment they're born. Keep an eye out for all those insecurities, and even expect them. Borrow white male privilege and just move through the world as if it was created for you. You have to kind of talk yourself into an imaginary space where the world is on your side and expects you to speak and wants you to speak. You have to create that space for yourself over and over again. Every hour sometimes.
By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.
I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?
You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.
If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.
World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and breathlessly long for the full manifestation of peace here on earth.
I love awards, especially if I get them.
June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain would fond winds fan her back to life, Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.