I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.

I just hope to work with great people, and do things that are challenging for me and that I can be proud of and not have to hide my face about. Those are my guidelines.

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.

Please write an ending where the Martians are defeated. Don't take away your readers' hope.

Silence is a girls loudest cry

All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.

To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward.

We find worth in jobs, money, & performance so we can hide how worthless we feel inside. Acknowledge the pain to be healed.

How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.