My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

I want to live a full life - period.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

If your woman is asleep every time you get home, shes just really tired. Of you.

People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

I went to public - I graduated from publics - Westchester High. I'm a product of LA Unified.

If you're dealing with a pack of werewolves I'll jump in without hesitation, but I was not getting in the middle of a pack of crazed shoppers on Black Friday

Putting 100% effort into "trying" will always make you successful. With that in mind it's important to remember that the effort part is never easy.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.

Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

The scoreline is a bit flattering really.

The world exists for the education of each man.

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to being a writer, I suppose.