We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.

As you climb, you grow deeper in the foundation, so it makes our foundation deeper.

I am very proud of my husband, both behind the camera and in front of the camera.

If it's a story that I feel is exciting and necessary, those are really motivating factors for me.

Michelle Obama, and any woman behind an influential man, has always been there.

It's very rare that you get material that rolls off your tongue.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

That's what Tiggers do best!

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

Just like self-interest is not selfishness, well, confidence is not a negative. Confidence is not an off-putting thing. It's, in fact, necessary for all good leaders.

I’m just enjoying just having a little me time, you know? But it’s not that I’m not taking applications.