My advice to any filmmaker would be to figure out what it is that you bring to the table. What makes you different? What is your voice?

We are living at a time where there are so many films available to watch through so many formats all the time. It's hard for any film to stand out in that din.

All any filmmaker can do is focus on creating something that has depth and resonance, and then do whatever possible to get it seen by audiences and hope the word spreads.

I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.

If you don't have a dream as an artist, you shouldn't be an artist, because you should be working towards something and trying to reach that always, whatever that is.

You want your film to get seen by as many people as possible. I mean nobody makes movies for themselves.

The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.

There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.

I laugh a lot and count my blessings.

Possess your soul with patience.

Virtually all of the civil laws in all of the world's societies are based on what humanity, in the earliest days, believed to be God's Law.

I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.