I prefer fact to fiction.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

Más importante que empezar bien nuestro caminar con Dios es terminar bien la obra.

For ye will know not love, if ye knoweth not your God.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed.

We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.

It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

I salute all workingwomen everywhere! You inspire me to keep going!

I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.