"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows"

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible"

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface"

"There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants"

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre"

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea"

"A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you"

"If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies"

"Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies"