We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.
The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance.
Movies touch our hearts, and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places. They open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our lifetime. We need to keep them alive.
There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.
Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.
It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.
I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.