All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's how locked down TV is.

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.

Be sure to know who your true friends are, because some of the people that you call friends are actually worse than the enemies that you know.

Longevity is highly over rated.

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

People ask, quite legitimately, why [Betsy] DeVos and why not a lot of the others? But it's because it has to do with the special interest groups that run a lot of Washington.

I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.

Every plan is a house of cards.

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

If you're 70th or 80th on the money list, it's not very motivating.

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.