Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic.….

To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to write and direct..

I love going back in time, and the only time you can really do that is on a movie set..

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards ch….

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a sto….

People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened ….

There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of ….

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. The….

It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened….

I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I c….

I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I w….

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change..