My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

Everything good you see is a product of time well spent

While your beliefs may change over time, the truth will not

I didn't belong as a kid and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset then my early life would have been much easier.

Men are only as unfaithful as their options.

She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.

But still at that particular level of commercialism I listen to those projects I still hear some stagnation in a lot of the stuff.

Girlfriend, if you're waiting for a fairy godmother to show up with a dress and a ride, you're not going to make it to the party.

The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.