As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.

You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress!

Leaders do not die with their music on their tongues unsung. They provide services that make them unleash their God-given potentials!

I didn’t feel like I was stealing someone’s husband

I started modeling at 28. I'm 5-feet-7 1/2, and I never went on a diet. I followed what my doctor told me: 'It's good to have a little bit of fat. Your weight is fine. Don't go any lighter.'

When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.

Hello and good-bye are not as simple as everyone thinks.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.

It's more enjoyable to shoot in a studio on a single location with two actors... if they are good.

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith