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I Entered This Business Before I Had Focus And Purpose In My Life. I Was Very Unhappy, Very Unhealthy, And When I Sat Down For An Interview, I Didn't Know Why. I Felt Like I Didn't Have Anything To Share. It Was A Very Empty Time.

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I Entered This Business Before I Had Focus And Purpose In My Life. I Was Very Unhappy, Very Unhealthy, And When I Sat Down For An Interview, I Didn't Know Why. I Felt Like I Didn't Have Anything To Share. It Was A Very Empty Time.

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I Actually Feel That Women In My Position, When We Have All At Our Disposal To Help Us, Shouldn't Complain When We Consider All Of The People Who Are Really Struggling, Who Don't Have The Financial Means, Who Don't Have The Support, And So Many People Are Single Raising Children - That's Hard.

To Actually Feel Like You've Done Something Good With Your Life And You're Useful To Others Is What I Was Always Wanting, And Was Always Looking For.

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And It Is A Very Important Thing To Be And Do, If Not The Most Important 'cause How You Interpret A Story Can Then Make The Difference. So It Is A Very Powerful Thing To Be. And When Misused, It's Very Sad.

I Personally Feel Like, If You're Watching A Film About War, You Should Get A Sense Of What It's Really Like.

I Don't Need Any Crutches In Order To Concentrate. As A Child I Learned That You Must Be Ready Because I'd Be Yelled At More Than Other People And It Would Always Be My Fault. I Learned That To Be Professional Is Your Number-one Priority. The Art Comes Second. You Learn That, In Order To Give Your Best Performance, You Have To Be A Good Technician, Which Means Never Allowing Negative Influences Affect Your Performance.

Usually All My Tattoos Came At Good Times. A Tattoo Is Something Permanent When You've Made A Self-discovery, Or Something You've Come To A Conclusion About.

I Grew Up As This Very Carefree, Happy Kid Then Things Turned Darker For Me. Maybe It Was Because I Saw That The World Wasn't As Happy A Place As I Had Hoped It Would Be For Me.

I Approached Unhcr Because I Believe In What The United Nations. I Believe Refugees Are The Most Vulnerable People In The World. They Are Affected By Everything, Including Landmines. They Are Vulnerable To Everything.

To Each His Own. It's One Of Those Things. How You Build Your Familyyou Have To Know What You're Capable Of Handling And How Your Children Will Relate To Each Other. Maybe If You Have One Child And That Child Has A Lot Of Needs, You Realize You Cannot Give More Attention To Another. Sometimes You Just Know As A Parent. We Felt We Could Handle More Children, And We Have A Very Happy, Very Full Home.

I Suppose I'm Very Aware Of Time And Of Memories And Of Enjoying Life... Not Just Doing The Right Thing And Being A Useful Person, Which I Certainly Wanna Be And Believe That I Am. I Hold Onto My Family Really Tight And Try To Be As Good A Woman As I Can Be In My Life.

Sometimes I Think My Husband Is So Amazing That I Don't Know Why He's With Me. I Don't Know Whether I'm Good Enough. But If I Make Him Happy, Then I'm Everything I Want To Be.

If You Don't Get Out Of The Box You've Been Raised In, You Won't Understand How Much Bigger The World Is.

I'm With A Man Who's Evolved Enough To Look At My Body And See It As More Beautiful Because Of The Journey It Has Taken.

I’m Trying To Learn More About International Law To Understand Why We Don’t Have Better Solutions For Conflict - For Dictators Or Aggressors That Are Hurting Or Raping Children Or Using Them As Child Soldiers. Why Can’t We Have An International Community Handle These Things In A Swift, Efficient Manner?

The Cost Of Testing For Brca1 And Brca2, At More Than $3,000 In The United States, Remains An Obstacle For Many Women.

I'd Love To Have A Great Relationship With My Father. And Unfortunately... I Don't.

Great Relationship

There Is No Shame In Being A Survivor Of Sexual Violence. The Shame Is On The Aggressor.

I Respect All Religions. What I Don't Respect Is When People Use Religion To Attack Others. I've Met People Across The World, In The Middle Of Nowhere, Who Are Just Trying To Survive And All They Have Is Religion. In Some Why, It Helps Them, And I Wouldn't Take It Away From Them. There Are Also People Who Use To To Hate And Kill. I Don't Consider Them Religious People.

There's People Constantly Asking You For Something On Set, So The Multi-tasking Of Motherhood Transfers Very Well To Being A Director. And I Think You're Compassionate.

Save One-third, Live On One-third, And Give Away One-third

I'm Looking Very Much Forward To Growing Older. I Want To Be An Exhausted Older Woman But With A Very Full Life Behind Me And One Still Going.

It's The Greatest Thing That Ever Happened In My Life, My Son.

Acting Is Not Pretending Or Lying. It's Finding A Side Of Yourself That's The Character And Ignoring Your Other Sides. And There's A Side Of Me That Wonders What's Wrong With Being Completely Honest.

I Love Directing, It Means So Much To Me To Direct Stories About Subject Matter That I Care Deeply About. I Can Act In Many Things, And You Can Try To Experience Different Characters, But To Direct Is Years Of Your Life And You Have To Really Love It And Believe In It.

My Kids Will Be Needing Me A Lot When They Hit Their Teens. If I Know Anything About Being A Teenager. I Need To Be Braced To Be Spending A Lot Of Time With All Six Of Them And Making Sure I Can Be There For When They Go Through Everything.

I Do Have Tatoos, And I Do Wear Leather, But There Are Other Sides Of Me, That My Film Express.

I Take My Kids To School And If I Go To Work They Visit Me On Set, I Come Home. I Have Dinner With My Family. I Have Breakfast With My Family. I Have A Very Solid, A Very Warm Home. I'm Fortunate.

I Cry Secretly. I Don't Really Cry In Front Of Anybody. I Hate Crying. I Feel Like It's Not Accomplishing Anything. But When I Lost My Mother, I Cried, And I Cried Big.

There Doesn't Need To Be A God For Me. There's Something In People That's Spiritual, That's Godlike. I Don't Feel Like Doing Things Just Because People Say Things, But I Also Don't Really Know If It's Better To Just Not Believe In Anything, Either.

I Wanna Better Understand The World I Live In, And I Wanna Be Able To Learn How To Be More Effective... I Wanna Learn And I Wanna Listen.

An Off-screen Persona Of Globally Conscious Earth Mother And An Aggressive On-screen Embodiment Of Kali, Goddess Of Destruction.

I Don't Understand Why Some Things Are Talked About And Others Are Not. I Don't Know Why I Think I Can Make Any Kind Of Difference. All I Know Is That I Want To.

Over 20 Million Children Of Conflict Are Out Of School. Education Is Often Forgotten.

I Know My Children Will Never Have To Say, 'mom Died Of Ovarian Cancer.'

I Didn't Even Know My Bra Size Until I Made A Movie.

I Would Start Drinking Something Terrible If I Were In A Situation Where I Was Surrounded By Lies Or Quiet Or Secrets. It's Just Not A Real Life.

I Like Everything. Boyish Girls, Girlish Boys, The Heavy And The Skinny. Which Is A Problem When I'm Walking Down The Street.

We Have A Choice About How We Take What Happens To Us In Our Life And Whether Or Not We Allow It To Turn Us. We Can Become Consumed By Hate And Darkness, Or We're Able To Regain Our Humanity Somehow, Or Come To Terms With Things And Learn Something About Ourselves.

I Grew Up With My Career Being Thrust Upon Me. It Took Me A Long Time To Believe That I Could Do More Than That One Aspect Of Our Business.

What Surprised Me About Directing Is How Much I Loved It And How Happy I Am To Be On The Set. I Love Coming To Work In The Morning. What I Realized Is That I Never Loved Acting. I Don't Love Being In The Hair And Makeup Chair. I Don't [love] Being In Costume. To Me The Strangest Thing Is That I've Just Spent The Majority Of My Life In One Aspect Of This Business, And Because I Was Fortunate Enough To Become Successful I Never Questioned Whether I Felt At Home And Found Out Later In Life That I'm Much Happier Directing.

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