Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be interpreted as critical of their subjects.

I'm in no way suggesting that I succeed, but it's inspiring to read somebody who does succeed and from whom, in a general way, you can draw examples and nourishment and sustenance.

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired.

I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH." I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.

It is always a problem to know what an image means.

Ocean separates lands, not souls..

Commitment precedes success. What you are committed to doing you will be successful at doing.

Positive energy is power. Use it more in your life, and see for yourself the success it creates.

Listen, my words have never been described as the most eloquent, but I stick by the passion behind them. I do hate Donald Trump.

I think it would be nice to be a prince.

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.

I just want people to focus on the performance.

One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food.

Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.