I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

I want to live a full life - period.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

If your woman is asleep every time you get home, shes just really tired. Of you.

People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

Cultivate confidence, and eradicate the need to control.

It's not an easy thing to be let go.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

The great point about money was to convert it as quickly as possible into something you could use or enjoy.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

Error has never approached my spirit.

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.