Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films.

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.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

My spirit thirst for the living water.

Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.

A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.

If you knew that you only had one day to live, what would you think about-your car or favorite pair of shoes or would it be the more everyday joys that occupy your mind?

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.