I'd love to direct again.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

We'll always have art, darling.

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

I'm crap at lying. I go bright red.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

You are who you associate yourself with

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

I like visual layers, stylistically, that's something I enjoy and seek to do.

The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician.

No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.

In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.

Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.