I think staying away from labels is what makes my films refreshing.

I hope my visual language inspires others to tell their stories and challenges people's thinking.

I believe love is bittersweet, especially young love.

A theatrical on a tight budget really only becomes about generating critical reviews for you and your film, not revenue.

As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way. They have believed in my dreams despite how steep the mountain has been.

I think my biggest advice to filmmakers is to look into the many digital platforms that exist for you and your team to distribute your film.

There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.

I feel like social media is something that has yet to be considered a viable platform for marketing in the industry.

You can depend on God to provide for you.

Spend your money for education

You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.

I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

Within the problem lies the solution

Why did you say you believed me ?" In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered. "Because I trust you.

I told the ambulance men the wrong blood type for my ex, so he knows what rejection feels like.

Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose.