I am a loyalist and I really absolutely love film.

I'm a big believer of "when there is a will there is a way" but from the studio's perspective I think it just seems like a bigger leap than you can get a sort of bureaucratic move to make.

Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?"

Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie.

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

I love the opportunity to shoot digital because you can shoot so many takes, it's really malleable, it's a ton of fun, and it is easy.

The opportunity to shoot and get the depth out of the film - that I don't think you can get out of digital - is a huge deal for me.

The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...

If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be the order of the day in the society.

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

There are people who don't like women holding power.

Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.

I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.

My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.