If you have the ability to do something, you should do it.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

There's a thin boundary between the light and dark side. Both are fervent to reign in the space of the other.

[M]y grandmother and I sit across from each other at the Gryphon Tea Room, on the grandest section of Bull Street.

I know that people have different ways to see me but I'm used to it.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.

Power is the active force in life. It is the force that makes awareness. The general term for spiritual power is kundalini. Kundalini is the energy of life that creates awareness.

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.

Shane McMahon had that tremendous match at WrestleMania with the Undertaker. He's fearless.

I made a few movies in Holland for a lot of TV series. I came to Los Angeles and for the last 10 years, I made a lot of feature films - all kinds of low budget action movies for the studios.