Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.
I want people to feel something in the pit of their stomach. I want my movies, especially the ending, to stay with people long after the credits have rolled.
Don't take no for an answer. Don't let yourself get pushed around, and don't be afraid to be the bad guy. Find a producer who will be there to back you up when things get difficult. Make sure you work with key crew that you trust.
I always say, I'm a woman, I can't change my sex. I can't get angry about it. I'm too busy desperately trying to get my movies made. It's hard work. There are no short cuts. If there were, I would have found them by now.
It's always about a character that I become obsessed with and who refuses to leave me alone.
The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project.
As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?
There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.
Millions of angels are at God's command.
I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.
He lifted his brows. "If I really thought it was the absolute best thing for our kids, you'd have had a battle on your hands. That was just a debate. " "With chair-throwing. " "Heated debate. Fights involve chair-breaking. Chair-throwing is just getting your attention.