For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.

It's always hard to analyze what your own style is.

When a woman wins an Oscar for telling a story from a woman's point of view, that's going to be the win. That's the moment.

I'd like to do what I see in my head. I always feel like I'm directing with one hand tied behind my back.

There's definitely something about the acting that's the most fun.

I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.

People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role?

It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.

Everything you do has to drive content, and the rest takes care of itself.

Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong.

I eat very clean, healthy food at all times because I'm very focused about keeping myself in shape.

You're not weak at all. Wounded, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.