Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.

It is us who change. We grow stronger, and the problems appear less imposing.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

Maintain your physical, emotional, and spiritual harmony with the universe by meditating every day. Inhale the precious breath of life. It is your connection to your Higher power.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

My philosophy is: Everybody needs to look out for everybody else.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.