You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Dreams are achieved by blood, sweat, tears, and an iron-will!

Don't be afraid to live. And hold onto the people you love.

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other.

We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them.

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

Faith is the staff that will support you over the rockiest terrain.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?