Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

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.

You got the eggs in you

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

Bad movies are when people go oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

I hope that people don't need to look at the liner notes to be affected by the music.

I've got no deep voice today. I've got a cold. But when I was young, I had a high tenor voice.

Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives.

The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery." Bram swore. This was going to be ugly.