If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.

We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward.

It is very important to support what you believe in.

There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.

If you put forth a really diverse cast and you fight for it and it doesn't do well - and it may fail for other reasons - you're gone because you stuck your neck out for that decision.

I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.

The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.

I am just a person who can't skate in the mountains

Whenever you become empowered, you will be tested.

I just told the whole truth and that felt really incredible and really scary.

God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.

My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.