“That’s actually a massive step away from his original position, and he’s taking a lot of heat in his world just for being my friend, just for hanging around with me.”

My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe roads there’d have been no Disneyland

You can’t worship the image or the Crucifix itself. You have to worship God.

Then it’s too late! Follow your gut. That’s hard to do, but the only way to be original.

I remember weeping behind the camera, because I was so moved by the way they connected.

You probably couldn’t have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

These are two people who would never have overlapped in any other way or context.

You probably couldn’t have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.

When I sat there in 1971 and watched my grandfather open Walt Disney World, I was a little 11-year-old girl who worshiped the ground he walked on.

I get very close to people when I’m shooting them. We would go and shoot a scene with Lucy, and I would spend the whole time telling her about Rob.

It’s powerfully important for me as a pro-choice person and person who supports Planned Parenthood to have Rob accept me as not a baby-killing horrible person.

Without high functioning legal systems and a well regulated business environment there would have been no copyright protection for Mickey Mouse.

As we realized we had richer, verite kind of people, what we wanted to do is focus in on the verite story.

We brought to the garden at Rob’s office and just sat and watched what unfolded.

Once we got to know each other, we had such similar impulses. We saw in a similar way, and we developed a strong friendship.

There are very few people who have committed more to the pro-life discourse than Rob has. He’s spent time in jail. He has really lived it.

There’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.

We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.

There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.

When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say ‘from Robbins, Illinois’ instead of ‘Chicago, Illinois.’

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.

If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.