I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

I have created the life that I live... therefore I can create the life that I want.

The key to the success of any producer is to have a great team around.

On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

I'm really a one-man band.

It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.

I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.

It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.

I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.

Writing is pure sweet freedom.

The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.

Lies are like anchovies in a Caesar salad. You may not be able to see them, but your soul knows they are there.

You don't have to strive to be right, because you of faith are made right.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.

I think it is important to know when to be hard on yourself and when to let things go, but always keep going.

In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.

We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.

My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.