Relationships are super complicated and always have dark and light in them. And all good sexual relationships do, too.

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

Once you go Kerry Washington, you can’t go back

My two daughters live on Facebook and social media is their mode of communication.

Nothings wrong with honest emotion.

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

Life is a very emotional experience.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Advice is always a confession.

I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

You can do as much diligence as possible before you go somewhere to try to protect yourself and the people around you.

She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

I hate how when I have a bunch of events going on and I have to get my hair done so much, [then] I have to wash it more often. It's definitely better not to.

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.