"Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it is going to work in your favor. The scope of female professional superiority can be understood by so few men that mostly they do not miss it."

“It looks like they've been watching old Japan tapes!”

“Most evil comes from the belief that one is a victim, or one's group is a victim”

“To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.”

“When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

“Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.”

“It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.