Quotes about Perspective

There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.

Any of us in the public eye must remember: Never, ever believe your own press, and pray to develop a hypersensitive gag reflex regarding your own importance.

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous.

Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.

A lot of people thought 'Funcrusher' was super dark and hopeless, and I don't think it was hopeless in any way.

For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

I've never directed, but it must be humbling.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

You stand in a puddle when I would give you an ocean...

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.