I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Dont regret that it just got over, but instead Move on for More!

Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.

The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.

Having her favorite breakfast always made her feel cozy, like a warm blanket was being wrapped around her.

Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

I have a lot of fears that normal people have.

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them.

And givin' yourself to me can never be wrong