Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

I like to make collages - paper collages.

So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

God’s image is in us all, so you can’t regard God when you disregard His people

I love jokes, but God, jokes can go so wrong. I have stayed up many nights thinking, "F**k. I can't believe I made that silly little joke. That was a disaster."

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

You have your ideology and I have mine.

I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where decisions made in the first impact the last.

It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious.

We can only learn so much and live.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.