For me, I'm a dancer first. I could be the President of the United States, and I will always be a dancer, first and foremost.

You are not a female or a male - you are a dancer. And when I started going into choreography I became part of a team of people making movies. I wasn't a woman choreographer. I was a choreographer.

There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell that seem to fall a little bit more on the indie level.

I'm always open to somebody else having a better idea, but I feel like, if it feels real, then people aren't thinking about it and they're just doing the acting of it.

As a dancer, I was always the physical comedy girl. I love it so much.

Maybe people don't think moms are cool. I don't know what to say about it. I don't know. Romantic comedies aren't for everybody, so maybe mom movies aren't for everybody.

I hate when I get a script and I can't see who the people are.

A lot of time it is hard to break into the commercial world and that has only to do with money and that has nothing to do with being female or male.

When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.

You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.

We could tell Americans everything is okay and nothing is going to happen. The fact is, there is a very real threat.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

I feel I am blessed that I have found my stride and relaxed into my life's purpose.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef.