"The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering."
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"Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch."
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"Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature."
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"You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on."
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"As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this.""
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"To have to watch myself in a way that was constructively critical was really good for me because it made me a little bit more easy on myself because I wasn't allowed to walk away screaming."
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"I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be."
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"I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead."
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"Hillary Clinton has a real history of uniting people, of being able to work with both Republicans and Democrats, of trying to fight for people's equal rights. Whereas we really see the polar opposite in her opponent."
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"I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors."
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"It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore."
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"I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders."
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"I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun."
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"I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism."
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"I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger."
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"I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'"
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"I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly"
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"I think that's the real shame: We spent the last 48 hours talking about these disgusting, disgusting comments and disgusting behavior instead of talking about hurricane relief or what's going on in Flint, Michigan. It's just appalling to have to be dealing with such nonsense and such disgusting, you know, criminal speech."
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"I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works."
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"Actual plans for how we help the economy, how we help the environment, how we help [deal with] violence in our cities. These are things that Hillary Clinton has always brought the conversation back to, when he's gone vulgar and he's gone low."
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