I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.
I am a longtime, rabid fan of Jonathan Kozol.
I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
I am not old but mellow like good wine.
Being the person who gets to make a movie about Wonder Woman, of course, I take that incredibly seriously. I am a huge Wonder Woman fan, and the aspiration comes totally naturally to me.
I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore.
I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.
I am basically a religious man.
Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.
I am most certainly a feminist.
I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.
I can't wish I weren't something that I am.
If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.
I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.
I have the softest beard in the world. As far as growing it, it doesn't itch, and it's so non-intrusive. But I am so sick of hair on my face and on my head.
Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.
If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.
I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.
I am a diehard romantic, and I shamelessly accept that. I love writing letters.
I think a role model is a person who says, 'This is who I am.'
I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
I am an artist first and a photographer second.
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
I am a connoisseur of products. I check out everything, I try everything.
Nothing in my background has anything to do with films. In that sense, I am a complete outsider.
Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
If you read the script, and the character's got something in it that you relate to, then I am keen. But I really think, a lot of the time, my successful auditions are those where I really care about the characters.
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
