"I think this is an exciting time to be a female filmmaker. Trust your instincts, work harder than anyone else and learn your craft. Know it all. This means learn how to shoot, edit, produce and direct. Get as much experience as you can and watch a lot of films."

“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”

“A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.23, Princeton University Press

“The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.”

“Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.”

“I'm a little superstitious.”

“It was scary how much she sounded like me sometimes. Maybe that's why she totally got on my nerves”

Source : MaryJanice Davidson (2006). “Undead and Unpopular: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.70, Penguin

“I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything.”

“The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.”