We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward.

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.

I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.

It is very important to support what you believe in.

There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.

If you put forth a really diverse cast and you fight for it and it doesn't do well - and it may fail for other reasons - you're gone because you stuck your neck out for that decision.

I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.

Nourish your soul, mediate daily.

Thoughts are divine.

Each soul, each person, has to find their own way - learn their own lessons ... It's all those rough bits that make us stronger.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

No one can argue with a testimony, it is not a debatable issue. It is there to be accepted or rejected.

The higher the hair, the closer to god.

The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one.

Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.