"In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception."

“I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate...”

Source : "The Melting - Pot Revisited: Twenty Well - Known Americans of Polish Background". Book by Olgierd Budrewicz, 1977.

“Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and move on.”

Source : Ralph Keyes (2003). “The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear”, p.91, Macmillan

“I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.”

“Authentic success is living by your own lights.”

“Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.”

“People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.”

“I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.”

“If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love”