Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.
Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.
We’re more than just our dresses.
I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.
I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.
Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.
As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.
Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.
It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.
Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.