I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.

When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.

We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.

There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.

The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.

News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time.