I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

Trials teach us patience and patience leads us to a place of hope

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

[Obamacare] was going to be the Republicans' big issue, and they're not talking about it because it's working.

You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

I will endure until the stars wink out & the very last trace of heat ebbs from the cosmos & there is nothing but eternal icy nothingness

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.