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

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.

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.

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

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.

Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons.

Success Requires a Mindset that sparks and sustains focused SWIFT ACTION.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.

I'm a huge poster collector.

Be like snow - cold, but beautiful.

Until God opens the next door, praise Him in the hallway.

There's no higher honor, in my estimation, than being asked to serve in the White House.

I got balls the size of grapefruits!

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.