"Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches."

“The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.”

Source : "On Directing: Interviews with Directors". Book editing by Gabriella Giannachi, Foreword, 1999.

“I've always been the only girl in those environments. It's comfortable for me - I prefer it, actually.”

“You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.”

“The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.”

“If we are  not a part  of the solution, then we are the problem”

“What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.”

Source : Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”

“Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it. - Leigh”

“For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.