“I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell ...” — Sydney Pollack Quote

“I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't know how to invent those jokes.”

“I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.”

“When you're shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don't want accidents; you want to know exactly what's going to happen. But with a documentary, you don't, so you have to be sensitive to accidents because that is where the gold is.”

“We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.”

“If I need something, I'll invent it.”

“I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.”