I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.

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.

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

I think the responsibility of running a huge business, which happens if you become a successful designer, probably makes you more careful.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.