All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

What joy to fully know and feel the bond of true friendship.

...And you're the only one who knows.

All the men on my staff can type.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.

My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.

All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.