In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.

God did not separate humanity from the environment in which they were created

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

No hard feelings, lover. You can't break my heart. It stopped beating a long time ago.

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.

Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously.