I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.

As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.

My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors.

No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.

Is life not more important than anything in this world?

To Be is to live with God.

Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.